Re: Saving PDF forms



El jue, 10-01-2008 a las 09:32 -0500, Christian Betz escribió:
> Hi All. Great work on evince! I love having a free alternative to
> Adobe's reader on Linux.
> 
> I was angered recently when Adobe Reader refused to save my PDF forms.
> I see no good reason (other than Adobe wanting to take my money), why
> the form values can't be saved somewhere.
> 
> So I checked out evince and noticed that it now has support for forms.
> My questions:
> 
> * It shouldn't be too hard to save the inputted form values, right?
> * Could the form values actually be saved as part of the PDF so I
> could open it up in Adobe Reader?
> 
> I know from some googling that someone on this list was working on PDF
> forms. Have you thought about save functionality yet?

yes, it's not supported by poppler yet, but it'll be soon (see
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2008-January/003306.html)

> It so happens I am a programmer -- so I would enjoy a discussion about
> exactly how such a feature would be implemented and would also lend a
> hand. I am vaguely familiar with general concepts of a PDF document.
> My C skills aren't awful either.
> 
> Tax time is coming up and I want to be able to save my PDF forms!
> 
> Christian Betz
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