Re: Bug 304575 – support PDF forms

[Daniel James <daniel 64studio com>]

Hi Brian,

> The actual functionality that I most need is more along the lines of
> creating PDF forms to allow for automatically compositing a PDF document
> with field values from a database or web form.

What kind of tool were you thinking of for putting the forms together? 
Scribus could be a good choice, as it has the layout tools for the form 
designer to use, plus the PDF export capability, and embedded 
Javascript-in-PDF support:

http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/acroreader.html

So the work needed would be to implement Javascript features in Evince 
which support the PDF form scripting in Scribus, followed by some 
Javascript to pull in the field values from a web/database server.

Cheers!

Daniel