Re: reading fdf files
--- Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu>
wrote:
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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.
>
i noticed a package called libpdf-fdf-simple-perl that
seems to be able to do what you are after (though i
have never have had a chance or need of trying it)
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