Frank Starsinic wrote: >It appears that the new pdf format (1.6) no longer uses AcroForms. > > That's incorrect. Every new version of the PDF format is backwards compatible. Forms that are made with Adobe Acrobat Pro are AcroForms. But maybe you are confused by a new product that ships with Adobe Acrobat Pro: LiveCycle Designer. If you create a form with LiveCycle Designer, it is not an AcroForm, but an XFA form.
>Does this mean that iText cannot be used wit the latest version of Adobe? > > I think you are mixing PDF, the Page Description Language, with Acrobat, the tool from Adobe and LiveCycle Designer, the tool that ships with Acrobat Pro. >I've tried populating forms and they do not populate. > > That's because you have a PDF with an XFA form, not with an AcroForm. There will be limited XFA functionality in iText soon. best regards, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
