Re: reading fdf files
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Robert Jerrard wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-11 at 19:02 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:19:14 -0700, Robert Jerrard wrote:
>>> I understand that fdf files are dynamic pdf files that appear to need
>>> proprietary software from Abode to read them. Is there any open source
>>> applications that can convert as fdf file to a pdf?
>> pdftk can take the data in an FDF (form data file) together with the
>> corresponding PDF form and produce a new PDF file which has the form
>> fields filled in with the data from the FDF. (I am not sure if that is
>> what you want to do.)
>
> I did see pdftk but I could not see the possibility of taking an fdf
> file only and converting it to a pdf (or some text file for that matter)
> which is what I was looking for.
>
> This came up because of a form that was available on-line that only
> comes in an fdf version and the company refused to make it available in
> a pdf version also. Quite annoying since I doubt the people that might
> need this form would even know what an fdf was (I didn't before this
> happened) or have the software to handle it. Most of the users would
> not, I suspect, know what a pdf is for that matter.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Bob
As far as I understand, FDF is not intended for "conversion to PDF".
It's merely a way of storing/transferring data corresponding to a given
PDF form within some PDF document. That is, there really is no "FDF
version" of PDF document. FDF is just the transient "stuffing" that can
be taken from or put into PDF with the appropriate form fields.
Sarunas
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