Tobias - that is correct. For PDF 2.0, XFA is deprecated, which means that while it is still permitted it is not recommended (and a processor can freely ignore it). However, that has *NO* impact on PDF 1.x where XFA is still a perfectly valid feature.
I am not suggesting or recommending that anyone support XFA (if they haven't already). I was simply correcting an incorrect statement about XFA being part of PDF 1.x & 32K-1. Leonard On 7/5/19, 9:48 AM, "Tobias Deiminger" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Leonard, Am 05.07.2019 14:43 schrieb Leonard Rosenthol: >> That file uses XFA, XFA is not part of the PDF standard. >> > That's *NOT* true, Albert.. but we can read from various sources that XFA has been deprecated: Wikipedia: "The XML Forms Architecture was not standardized as an ISO standard, and has been deprecated in PDF 2.0." [0] PDF/A: "Deprecated items include: XFA (incl. NeedsRendering)" [1] Probably ISO 32000-2 itself? I don't own a copy to check it. > While the XFA specification is a separate document, it is normatively > referenced in ISO 32000-1. Exactly the same way that TrueType, Flate > compression, etc. are referenced. True for ISO 32000-1 (PDF 1.7), but not for ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0), is it? I have a hard time to imagine why anyone would want to invest spare time into this rather nasty mix of PDF and XML now that it's deprecated with PDF 2.0. > Leonard Tobias [0] https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FXFA&data=02%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7Ca8cb17c8c61b4cf1e60008d7014f706a%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636979313015111460&sdata=RAx78sP8elZTSjjvUnOpSisB49GP0sQwJJZUzADPgs0%3D&reserved=0 [1] https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pdfa.org%2Fpdf-2-0-the-worldwide-standard-for-electronic-documents-has-evolved%2F&data=02%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7Ca8cb17c8c61b4cf1e60008d7014f706a%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636979313015111460&sdata=8Ye9sa0w1kVT5Sfw%2BnRH5b3fjYNsna%2FizkaI%2BVJ1SMw%3D&reserved=0 > > -----Original Message----- > From: poppler <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Albert Astals Cid > Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 1:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [poppler] PDF form > > El dijous, 4 de juliol de 2019, a les 15:34:54 CEST, Alex Korobkin va > escriure: >> There are special forms that Okular and Evince can't open, like this >> one >> https://www. >> canada.ca%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fircc%2Fmigration%2Fircc%2Fenglish%2Fpdf%2F >> kits%2Fforms%2Fimm5257e.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7C >> 8695968603154e3e927908d700a7336b%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C >> 0%7C1%7C636978590441132683&sdata=hEGYOOGuzeqsFASqyRy9QMLtiTOgVV8IE >> weZBIzcISg%3D&reserved=0 > > That file uses XFA, XFA is not part of the PDF standard. > > Contact your government and tell them they should fix their PDF files > to be standards compliant. > > Cheers, > Albert > >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 7:03 AM Tobias Deiminger <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi Valerio, >> > >> > Am 04.07.2019 12:05 schrieb Valerio Messina: >> > > I cannot find a Linux application to fill PDF forms. >> > > On Linux, last Acrobat is 9 and it can't too. >> > > Seems Evince and Okular cannot too. >> > > >> > > Does poppler support them, and someone can suggest and application >> > > poppler based that can fill forms? >> > >> > yes, poppler and Okular do support filling PDF forms. >> > I'm not sure about Evince, that should be answered by our Gnome >> > people here. >> > >> > What you describe smells like either a broken document (because you >> > say even Acrobat can't fill the forms), or maybe it's no real form >> > but just non-interactive graphic in which case you would use >> > typewriter annotations to fill them. >> > >> > Feel free to open a poppler bug where you attach the PDF file, so >> > that we can have a look at it. >> > >> > Tobias >> > _______________________________________________ >> > poppler mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://li >> > sts.freedesktop.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fpoppler&data=02%7C01% >> > 7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7C8695968603154e3e927908d700a7336b%7Cfa7b1b5a >> > 7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C1%7C636978590441142677&sdata=h5RN >> > zLZj3mxG6VMtPk54EM0bMRPaGDmF1Sx4m1QFzqw%3D&reserved=0 >> >> >> >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.freedesktop.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fpoppler&data=02%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7Ca8cb17c8c61b4cf1e60008d7014f706a%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636979313015111460&sdata=HP9rwCc4tt20wf6iRcBNyXxnDp%2FYj6c%2FNyNw9Ej7pgo%3D&reserved=0 > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.freedesktop.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fpoppler&data=02%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7Ca8cb17c8c61b4cf1e60008d7014f706a%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636979313015111460&sdata=HP9rwCc4tt20wf6iRcBNyXxnDp%2FYj6c%2FNyNw9Ej7pgo%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
