Package: pdftk Version: 1.40-2 Severity: normal Hi,
In the form available at [1] (which is a form for reporting some taxes
to the Finnish tax authority), the command
pdftk 9a2006.pdf generate_fdf output 9a2006.fdf
generates fdf where the field names are garbled into 16-bit characters
that look like UCS-2 (by taking every second character, they make
sense). This is how it looks like in my emacs:
------------------------------------------------------------
%FDF-1.2
%âãÏÓ
1 0 obj
<<
/FDF
<<
/Fields [
<<
/V (þÿ)
/T ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED])
>>
<<
/V (þÿ)
/T ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@o)
>>
[...]
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The field names should probably be "Paivays" and "tappio" ("päiväys"
and "tappio" are valid Finnish words), not "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL
PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@o".
Similarly, it seems I need to enter the contents in UCS-8 format -
otherwise, curiously, the fill_form operation tries to eat all my
memory.
Sami
[1] http://www.hut.fi/~sliedes/9a2006.pdf
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