Package: pdftk
Followup-For: Bug #421343
Thanks for packaging pdftk !
While I agree that the FDF file format (apparently: ASCII with enclosed
BOM-prefixed UTF-16-BE field values) seems rather cumbersome to handle
with text oriented tools this does not seem like a bug to me.
The UTF-16-BE parts you refer to are not the field *names* but rather
the *content*. Content apparently can come encoded as UTF-16-BE as per
the PDF spec.
Here is how to parse and replace those fields with Python:
http://gitorious.org/gnumed/gnumed/blobs/master/gnumed/gnumed/client/business/gmForms.py
(look at cPDFForm.substitute_placeholders(), mainly)
HTH,
Karsten
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (50,
'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages pdftk depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-10 GCC support library
ii libgcj12 4.6.0-3 Java runtime library for use with
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
pdftk recommends no packages.
Versions of packages pdftk suggests:
ii poppler-utils [xpdf-utils] 0.12.4-1.2 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii xpdf-utils 3.02-12 Transitional package for poppler-u
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