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Hi Folks,
I'm on OS X trying to build some sort of system which will automate the creation of form fields on a PDF document. Ideally, this would take the form of, for example, a Python module, or just about anything else that could be run in a CLI/terminal interface.
The only even semi-encouraging system I've found is using Javascript inside of PDF, but that has such a painful UI, is slow, cannot be easily run in a batch process, and it is very cumbersome to import & export external data, so I'd really, really rather not have to go there.
I'm thinking of a dream tool where I could simply craft a text file, maybe XML, and specify field name, rect on page, font, text size, and all the other parameters found in the Field Properties dialog. The Acrobat form tools are so imprecise and unwieldy, that a tool like this could vastly improve my efficiency in creating, and especially maintaining interactive PDF forms.
However, I am finding absolutely NOTHING out there. It's ironic and unfortunate that there are _so_ many tools to create PDFs, but no(?) tools to create forms on these PDFs. I hope I'm simply overlooking something, but if I am, Google doesn't know about it.
So, if you're aware of anything (keeping in mind my OS X requirement), I'd love to hear about it.
Thanks al,
michael geary
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