[poppler] PDF form

[Leonard Rosenthol]

> That file uses XFA, XFA is not part of the PDF standard.
>
That's *NOT* true, Albert..

While the XFA specification is a separate document, it is normatively referenced in ISO 32000-1.  Exactly the same way that TrueType, Flate compression, etc. are referenced.  


Leonard


-----Original Message-----
From: poppler <poppler-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> On Behalf Of Albert Astals Cid
Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 1:44 PM
To: poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [poppler] PDF form

El dijous, 4 de juliol de 2019, a les 15:34:54 CEST, Alex Korobkin va escriure:
> There are special forms that Okular and Evince can't open, like this 
> one
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.
> canada.ca%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fircc%2Fmigration%2Fircc%2Fenglish%2Fpdf%2F
> kits%2Fforms%2Fimm5257e.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7C
> 8695968603154e3e927908d700a7336b%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C
> 0%7C1%7C636978590441132683&sdata=hEGYOOGuzeqsFASqyRy9QMLtiTOgVV8IE
> weZBIzcISg%3D&reserved=0

That file uses XFA, XFA is not part of the PDF standard. 

Contact your government and tell them they should fix their PDF files to be standards compliant.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 7:03 AM Tobias Deiminger <haxtibal at posteo.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Valerio,
> >
> > Am 04.07.2019 12:05 schrieb Valerio Messina:
> > > I cannot find a Linux application to fill PDF forms.
> > > On Linux, last Acrobat is 9 and it can't too.
> > > Seems Evince and Okular cannot too.
> > >
> > > Does poppler support them, and someone can suggest and application 
> > > poppler based that can fill forms?
> >
> > yes, poppler and Okular do support filling PDF forms.
> > I'm not sure about Evince, that should be answered by our Gnome 
> > people here.
> >
> > What you describe smells like either a broken document (because you 
> > say even Acrobat can't fill the forms), or maybe it's no real form 
> > but just non-interactive graphic in which case you would use 
> > typewriter annotations to fill them.
> >
> > Feel free to open a poppler bug where you attach the PDF file, so 
> > that we can have a look at it.
> >
> > Tobias
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> > 7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C1%7C636978590441142677&sdata=h5RN
> > zLZj3mxG6VMtPk54EM0bMRPaGDmF1Sx4m1QFzqw%3D&reserved=0
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