Saving editable PDF forms?
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Tue Jan 30 11:55:22 EST 2007
On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:31, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Is there a way using pdftk (or similar) to create/change PDF forms
> such that I can edit it, save it, then re-open it later with my
> previous edits still in place and then change them or add to them?
There's a PDF sibling standard called FDF which contains data
elements for PDF forms. You might see if you can find something that
lets you save your data into an FDF file and re-apply it to the PDF
when you open it again. If it's somebody in your environment you can
probably come up with a script to mange the PDF and FDF files
together for them.
Last time I played with this I was writing some proprietary back-end
code to handle these files so I'm not sure what's available for
client software.
-Bill
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