Saving editable PDF forms?

[Paul Lussier]

Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:

> On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:31, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> There's a PDF sibling standard called FDF which contains data
> elements for PDF forms.

Yeah, pdftk alludes to this and I thought perhaps I could use it to
"convert" the form.

> 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.

pdftk will allow you to apply an FDF file to a PDF "template" and save
the output.  I just haven't figured out how to do that yet.

> 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.

There's a perl module that seems to speak FSF, so I'm sure I could
come up with something given time and inclination.  But, since this
quest was spakrked by someone elses interest, I'm more inclined let
them do that :)

Thanks.
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Seeya,
Paul
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