Thanks so much Leonard. This helps. One final question - you mentioned that "The XML data that represents the form is not necessary the content of the PDF". I have the pdf document - I guess it is the XFA form. If I fill the form fields, how would I then be able to get this content of the form fields?
Also, I yesterday, I looked at pdfbox to see if that would help. With that too, I am seeing the same problem you commented here - where I get the XFA form fields, however, any form field values that I enter and after saving the pdf document, when I read the pdf file with pdfbox, I don't see my form field content. Not sure how I can make this working either with itext or pdfbox. In short, I have the pdf file with XFA form which I want to read - hopefully I want to get the form content as xml file itself. --- Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:16 PM 8/15/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I didn't provide the details right. I have a pdf > file that seems to > >be created > >with Adboe LiveCycle or something like that - which > has the form > >features that > >with the Adboe Reader, it allows the form data to > be exported to XML data. > > Adobe LiveCycle Designer is new in Acrobat > 7 and does create > "XML Forms" that are embedded into the PDF. They > manage the entire > form, not just the exporting of the data from the > form. > > > >Was wondering whether I can read that file content > somehow in xml > >format itself? > The XML data that represents the form is > not necessary the > content of the PDF - it's the form aspects (fields, > etc.). You can > read that part by getting the data from the > /Catalog/XFA value in the > PDF. However, that's NOT content - and it's only > valid for these newer PDFs. > > > Leonard > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chief Technical Officer > <http://www.pdfsages.com> > PDF Sages, Inc. > 215-938-7080 (voice) > > 215-938-0880 (fax) > > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
