Last month we had an exciting announcement: we have released our new browser-based PDF Form viewing solution, FormVu. What is FormVu? FormVu is a solution that puts PDF forms back into the browser where they belong. It is still possible to view PDF forms in the browser, and with FormVu you can build a much…
I have been looking at some Annotation issues and came across an interesting feature in a sample PDF file. I viewed it in Acrobat’s viewer and saw the following. It is a freetext annotation with an AP object to define how it appears. It was not appearing in our PDF viewer so I dug down…
When we create an HTML5 form from a PDF file we have a choice of how we handle the form names. We can either use an autogenerated value, or we can use the name of the Form from the PDF. The second is much more useful because it makes it easy to compare the PDF…
We get quite a few questions asking about accessing Form objects on the page especially Link or signature objects. This is actually fairly easy to do. The PDF file normally contains both of these objects as Annotations. A list of Annotations are stored on each page and the Annotations objects contain their type and location…
Like many of my best articles this posting was inspired by a posting on our help forums. We try to answer all questions and often use a blog post to provide a more detailed reply if it is a useful general topic. The question related to extracting form data from a PDF file. The PDF…
