Re: Filling out forms with FDF or JS on Linux and Mac OS X

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From: David Kvarnberg
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:37

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No. The browsers start Acrobat "normally" (as opposed to embedded in the browser window, like IE on Windows does). 

In Linux, it seems that the browser first downloads the .fdf to a temporary file and then launches the .pdf like this: http://somewhere/my.pdf#/tmp/AcroXo9dkd <http://somewhere/my.pdf#/tmp/AcroXo9dkd> (where /tmp/AcroXo9dkd is the temporary .fdf). 

I checked the settings on Mac OS X, and it seems to work in the same way there. 

I have tried this on multiple Mac OS X boxes, with the same result. 

Is there any way to "feed" a .fdf to a .pdf manually, bypassing the browsers somehow? Or passing parameters that could be parsed by the embedded JavaScript instead of using FDF? 

That might help solve the problem. 

David

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