Here is more information about the format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acroforms#AcroForms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Forms_Architecture
pdftk has an option that possibly can be used as a workaround/help: [drop_xfa] If your input PDF is a form created using Acrobat 7 or Adobe Designer, then it probably has XFA data. Filling such a form using pdftk yields a PDF with data that fails to display in Acrobat 7 (and 6?). The workaround solution is to remove the form's XFA data, either before you fill the form using pdftk or at the time you fill the form. Using this option causes pdftk to omit the XFA data from the output PDF form. This option is only useful when running pdftk on a single input PDF. When assembling a PDF from multiple inputs using pdftk, any XFA data in the input is automatically omitted. >From the man page: http://linux.die.net/man/1/pdftk -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to poppler in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321720 Title: PDF v1.7 asks to upgrade Adobe Reader Status in Poppler: Confirmed Status in “poppler” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Evince cannot read the pdf format created with Adobe 8.1.3 This results in the file displaying the below message. Presumably, this is the message that Adobe Reader 8.1.3 and higher will save into the pdf files for readers that are only familiar with older pdf formats. This kind of monopolizing is typical of closed source programs. ------------------------------------ To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer. You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html ----------------------------------- ------ Original complaint is below. The complaint inaccurately attributes the message to a mistake on the part of the linux pdf readers. ------ Binary package hint: evince 1) I am using Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates installed as of the time of this writing (Jan. 26, 2009). 2) The version of the Evince Document Viewer is 2.24.1. 3) What I expected: By opening the PDF in Adobe's PDF viewer, this PDF is a editable form with text boxes, drop-down menus, check boxes, and two buttons to initiate emailing or printing the form. 4) What actually happened: This following message was displayed (within the document as though that is what the document actually was): ------------------------------------ To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer. You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html ----------------------------------- No Linux or Ubuntu user should have to see a message like that...telling them they have to use non-free software. I am in the process of asking the author of the file information about how she made it...like what program she used, what version it is, and possibly what version of the PDF standard it is, in case that information would help. I will edit this report and comment below if I have any new information. Sorry that I don't know if this is a truly an Evince bug or Poppler bug. I am doing the best I can to help. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: evince 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evince Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
