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DOCS: some more about interactive forms #497

Open typhoon71 opened 4 years ago

typhoon71 commented 4 years ago

Now that the AcroForm howto is merged, I suppose I can consider some other cases. I waited after the PR got merged because it was becaming difficult for me to keep focused.

XFA forms. Turns out it's possible to extract those with pdfminer, see this SO thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18587878/extract-xdp-or-xfa-from-pdf/33293026#33293026 Would it be fine to add a minimal howto with the relevant info to the docs? I wouldn't invest much time on this, but a little note wouldn't hurt.

pietermarsman commented 4 years ago

I like the second idea the most. People searching for "how to extract xfa forms from a pdf" will end up there, and will be very much helped if the howto works for them.

So lets focus this issue / upcoming PR on the XFA forms? I edited the description to reflect this. Also created #499 for focussing on the recusive AcroForm's.

typhoon71 commented 4 years ago

I'll work on this in the weekend and see what I an put together.

Btw, Interactive Forms should be #499, not #466.

typhoon71 commented 3 years ago

It seems I won't be able to work on this in the foreseeable future, stuff happened.

pietermarsman commented 3 years ago

OK, thanks for letting us know. And good luck!

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