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Yeah, it’s bad when governments depend on proprietary formats like that. It would be better if they would use a simple web app for entering the data, and then g

by cpach 10y ago

Yeah, it’s bad when governments depend on proprietary formats like that. It would be better if they would use a simple web app for entering the data, and then generate a PDF server-side. (Or even better perhaps, just let the whole application process live online.)

creshal 10y ago
Doing forms in PDF directly is not the most unreasonable idea. The problem is it's not one, but three ridiculously overcomplex specification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Interactive_elements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Inter...
- blowski 10y ago
  It's fine if it's the easiest method available with universal support. In this case in failed on both counts.