Re: [libreoffice-users] pdf forms (OT?)

Mike Scott wrote:
> Hi all. I've just been looking at making pdf forms with Writer. Easier 
> than I'd thought.
>
> I've been able to create a sample form with text fields and open this 
> with xreader, evince or firefox. Firefox is able to display, edit and 
> save a form whatever the content.
>
> However, evince and xreader refuse to even show data for radio buttons 
> or a checkbox control and will not alter the settings. Similarly, 
> pdftotext does not print the setting of such a control.
>
> I'm not sure this is strictly an LO issue, but has anyone met similar 
> problems with LO-produced forms?
>
> I'm working on Mint 21.2 (LO 7.3.7.2), but will need the resulting 
> pdf's to be usable by Windows users too.
>
>
> Oh, and is there any known way (CLI) of extracting the data fields 
> from a pdf form? pdftotext seems rather ham-fisted: surely there's 
> something better!
>
>
> Apologies if this is too far OT; but any advice would be helpful, thanks.
Mike Scott
Sorry ... not much experienece with LO pdf forms, or LO forms in 
general, but should very much like to know how your forms might function 
under Okular.  I am willing to try testing that for you, if you could 
send one of your forms to me attached to an email, but if you have 
access to Okular, your results would do as well.

As a side note: I have had success in using both Firefox and Okular to 
complete, save, and print, downloaded Adobe Acrobat pdf forms, but not 
with any other pdf reader.  And I have never tested anything recently, 
on a Windows system as I don't have one.
Regards
Fred James

Mageia 8 64bit, Plaama desktop
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21:17:00 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
LO 7.4.5.1


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