Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.
At IDR Solutions we are constantly working on adding new functionality and improving our applications. In my previous article “Integrating Oracle Documentation into NetBeans IDE with PDF Viewer Plugin” I explained how we added an option to display the NetBeans documentation from inside NetBeans using our PDF Viewer plugin. Our PDF viewer allows configuration data…
Recently I have been working on implementing full script support for XFA in our PDF products. As well as flat content and JavaScript, XFA can contain events which are implemented as part of the XML and which I needed to support in both Java and HTML5. This required taking apart the XML and implementing in…
In this article I aim to introduce you to XFA forms, the XML Forms Architecture. So how do you find XFA forms in a PDF? As with the FDF format you will find a tag called ‘AcroForms’ within this tag there are others, one of which we found last time as ‘Fields’ which define the…
In my last two articles, I talked about giving developers access to your code and to control its functionality by adding their own code. It is also possible to provide a set of variables which allow the user to control your application. You can then reference these values in your code. There are 3 main…
One of the really useful features of the PDF file format is the ability to have interactive elements. These began as just simple checkboxes, buttons, comboboxes and textfields type widgets and the list has expanded to include the ability to embed Sounds, Movies and even other files or URLs. This makes the PDF file format…
