[gs-devel] PDF Formularies in Ghostscript xefitra

[Leonardo]

Dear Alberto,

Thanks for your interest to Ghostscript.
Ghostscript library is mainly oriented to
embedded market (printers) and for batch processing.
It does not maintain interactive features now.
It will display the form as a plain image.
Currently it has no interface for exporting
variable fields. It will be implemented someday,
but please don't expect a fast result.

In theory, an advanced Postscript programmer
can implement a hook that forwards
fields' coordinates to stdout (or another file) and then
you can open edit windows over the image.
Please let us know if you need more info about that.

Leo.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alcueca" <alcueca at inf.upv.es>
To: <gs-devel at ghostscript.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:18 AM
Subject: [gs-devel] PDF Formularies in Ghostscript


>
> Hello all, excuses if this information can be found on the documentation, 
> the
> issue at hand is a bit complex and after some research is now when I think 
> I
> could use some expert advice.
>
> I have a client which desires to code an open-source PDF viewer which 
> would
> be able to display forms, allow the user to fill them, and run JavaScript
> validation tests on the introduced information.
>
> My company is first researching the feasibility and costs of such a 
> project,
> and later we would be responsible for the development of the first
> prototype, the client would finish the development and carry the
> manteinance. We are looking for open-source pdf libraries and viewers 
> which
> we could use or extend for this task.
>
> As far as I know, there are only three open-source libraries, which are 
> the
> base for every open-source PDF viewer out there: Ghostscript, xpdf -
> poppler, and mupdf. I haven't seen any open-source pdf viewer which 
> supports
> forms.
>
> The questions are:
>
> Are formularies supported by the ghostscript library?
> are they expected to be supported in near future?
> maybe any other of the libraries could be used for this end?
> Is there any open-source pdf viewer which supports forms?
>
> Thanks a lot for your attention, cheers,
> Alberto
>
>
> P.S: Excuse me for reposts, I received notifications from nabbler about 
> the
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