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Will it support only the standardised kind of forms, or also the proprietary Adobe-only kind of forms? (Yes, there's two, and the latter are what Swedish admini
by TazeTSchnitzel 6y ago
Will it support only the standardised kind of forms, or also the proprietary Adobe-only kind of forms? (Yes, there's two, and the latter are what Swedish administrative agencies use, so I'm forced to choose the “non-fillable PDF” option lest I get a file intentionally made unreadable to non-Adobe software.)
- phonon 6y agoOnly the standardized acroforms. XFA forms are deprecated anyway... http://blog.pdfshareforms.com/pdf-2-0-release-bid-farewell-xfa-forms/ http://blog.pdfshareforms.com/pdf-2-0-release-bid-farewell-x...
- xvilka 6y agoIn theory. In practice you still can meet the XFA forms, especially for some governmental organizations.
- treve 6y agoYup! Keep running into having no way to fill in Canadian Government forms. It's all XFA.
- phonon 6y agoExample? There are ways of converting XFA forms to Acroforms...
- phonon 6y agoFwiw, I converted this random CA secured XFA form to an unlocked Acroform in a few seconds. From https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publications/forms/t5008.html https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publi... to https://slack-files.com/T02FQ9S94-F01BA4CS9QA-a692aafd70 https://slack-files.com/T02FQ9S94-F01BA4CS9QA-a692aafd70 Only difference I can see is the "Clear Data" scripted js button no longer works.
- treve 6y agoHow do you do this exactly? Would be helpful to know
- phonon 6y agoUnlock form in multiple ways (easy to google). Convert to acroforms using Acrobat Pro using the extract function. https://imgur.com/a/3mAi3l0 https://imgur.com/a/3mAi3l0 Will remove XFA "capabilities", but otherwise works...
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agoISO deprecating it won't actually improve things at all, surely? It's Adobe that has the power and created the problem.
- phonon 6y agoAdobe was part of the standards making process...presumably it wouldn't have been deprecated if they wanted to continue using it indefinitely. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/08/08/taking-documents-to-the-next-level-with-pdf-2-0.html#gs.gxr6vm https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/08/08/taking-document...