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

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From: David Kvarnberg
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:18
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I think you are misunderstanding. I am not submitting PDF-forms. 

I am trying to open a PDF file with forms prefilled by passing a FDF file to the PDF file. Exactly like it's done in Adobes own samples that are included with the FDF Toolkit. 

I have also tried opening a PDF-file with embedded JavaScript to fill out the forms, thus avoiding the the FDF toolkit. Like this: http://somewhere/my.pdf?name=david&curreny=dollar <http://somewhere/my.pdf?name=david&curreny=dollar> 

It does work perfectly fine on both Mac OS 9 and Windows (I've tried 98, XP) but on Linux and Mac OS X the forms are not filled out. 

Here is a link that shows the usage of the FDF toolkit: http://195.149.144.123/cgi-bin/pdftest.pl <http://195.149.144.123/cgi-bin/pdftest.pl> 

It outputs a FDF that calls http://195.149.144.123/pdftest/test.pdf <http://195.149.144.123/pdftest/test.pdf> 

Is this not supposed to be supported on Mac OS X and Linux? 

David
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