--- Sarunas Burdulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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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