On 26/08/17 20:51, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > Hello dear poppler developer(s), > > I'd like to ask question many times asked, but also possibly > offering bounty for resolution.. > > Our customer has issue displaying one particular PDF file generated by SAP > HR portal they use. Changing it on SAP side is not possible in reasonable > time and due to security, as well as stability reasons, I'd really hate > to install adobe reader just to be able to view one particular file type.. > > problem is, that under evince (or anything poppler based, or even other PDF > viewers), I do not see file content properly, due to lack of XFA support. > > example file can be obtained here: > > http://nik.lbox.cz/download/odmeny.pdf > > I also understand that XFA is not really standard and implementing support > is certainly not easy, due to lack of documentation. > > My question is, can you estimate how hard it would be to implement at least > subset of needed functionality to be able to display such files?
There a bit more detail in this bug comment: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14265#c17 XFA is outside the scope of poppler as it is not part of the PDF standard. Any poppler support would be limited to providing a function to extract the embedded xml. iText has the capability to convert an XFA PDF to an ordinary PDF. Maybe that could solve your problem. http://developers.itextpdf.com/question/how-flatten-xfa-pdf-form-using-itextsharp > > If it would be possible at all, and with reasonable effort, would > you be interested in doing it for a bounty? I mean adding support > to poppler so it's working in evince at least then.. > > Or has anyone any other tips on how to deal with such file under > linux desktop, other then using acroread? > > thanks a lot in advance > > with best regards > > nikola ciprich > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
