RE: [pdf-devel] Food for thought: how will gnupdf handle Javascript?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

Well, that particular form you posted isn't an AcroForm-based PDF - it's
an XFA-based PDF.  So Poppler and other tools that are rendering the
AcroForms of that document aren't actually rendering the correct form -
they are rendering a "static mirror" of the proper form.   

If you'd like some actual AcroForm samples with JavaScript, I will be
more than glad to provide.

However, supporting JavaScript in PDF is a MAJOR project for many
reasons.

Leonard

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Subject: [pdf-devel] Food for thought: how will gnupdf handle
Javascript?

G'day,

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14265 describes a problem
with 
poppler rendering of a particular file 
(http://undergradresearch.fsu.edu/Gfx/summer_award.pdf) which makes use
of 
javascript. 

While the poppler project is still think about it, I hope this example
is also 
useful to the gnupdf project, as a basis for considering how you will
handle 
this type of file.

Brad