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Todo: Support Form-filling #7

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dwarring opened this issue Apr 10, 2020 · 1 comment
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Todo: Support Form-filling #7

dwarring opened this issue Apr 10, 2020 · 1 comment

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dwarring commented Apr 10, 2020 •
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After some experimentation, setting the form value is not enough to enter a displayable value (Acrobat Reader). Displays OK on Xpdf, Evince, but AR needs an Appearance. Perl 5 CAM PDF's CAM::PDF.fillFormFields() can be used as a reference implementation for this feature.
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@dwarring dwarring changed the title Form filling is incomplete. Todo: Support Form-filling Apr 10, 2020
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If PDF form fields are appropriately structured and to spec, it's not necessary to rebuild the forms appearance (/AP entry), but some aren't. Considering something like:

$form.value(:reformat) = $v

The form appearance will be rebuilt, but current form is lost. Can be used to fix up dodgy forms.

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