on "This document has XFA forms, which are currently unsupported."

mario chiari ml at mariochiari.net
Wed Jun 16 17:01:50 BST 2021


On Wed, 2021-06-16 at 15:36 +0200, Oliver Sander wrote:
> Hi Mario,
> 
> XFA forms are not part of the PDF standard, and supporting them would
> be a lot of work.
> Besides, they are deprecated in PDF 2.0:
> 
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> https://www.pdfa.org/pdf-2-0-the-worldwide-standard-for-electronic-documents-has-evolved/
> 
> In other words, support for them in Okular is very unlikely to come.
> It's better to avoid them altogether if you can.
> 
> Best,
> Oliver

Thanks.
Out of curiosity, does Adobe consider them deprecated?
cheers
mario

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> On 16.06.21 15:33, mario chiari wrote:
> > Hi
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> > I am writing as a user.
> > I appreciate a quick update on pro/cons of support of XFA forms.
> > Thanks for any good (entry-level) reference on the issue too.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Best wishes
> > mario
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