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Back in 2000-2001, I worked up a prototype of something similar using Adobe's FDF SDK [1] for PDF. We had a PDF-centric application that would render to PDF usi
by curun1r 9y ago
Back in 2000-2001, I worked up a prototype of something similar using Adobe's FDF SDK [1] for PDF. We had a PDF-centric application that would render to PDF using an HTML -> PDF library and it was hugely problematic, so the prototype definitely made things a lot easier and, had the business not run out of money at about that time, it would have been the direction we headed with the product.
So, how similar is this to FDF? Does it use FDF under the hood? If not, what are the pros and cons of this over FDF?
[1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/fdftoolkit.html http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/fdftoolkit.html
- nathan_f77 9y agoI decided not to use FDF or AcroForms / XFA to create the output PDFs. I just thought it would be easier to render the data as plain text, shapes, and images. However, I do parse form fields from AcroForms / XFA forms. I'm not sure about the pros and cons. If a customer needed to generate PDFs with data in the FDF format, then that's something that I would be happy to build.