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

Oliver Sander oliver.sander at tu-dresden.de
Wed Jun 16 14:36:20 BST 2021


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:

   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

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.
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> Thanks
> Best wishes
> mario
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