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8.6.6 Forms Data Format (FDF Catalog)
128. The Acrobat implementation of interactive forms displays the value of the
alert note when importing an FDF file.
129. The only
GBK, and BigFive. If any other value is specified, the default,
8.6.6 Forms Data Format (FDF Fields)
130. Of all the possible entries shown in Table 8.96 on page 717, Acrobat 3.0 exports only the
generating FDF, and Acrobat 4.0 and later versions export only the
however, import FDF files containing fields that have any of the described entries.
131. If the FDF dictionary in an FDF file received as a result of a submit-form action contains an F entry
specifying a form other than the one currently being displayed, Acrobat fetches the specified form
before importing the FDF file.
132. When exporting a form to an FDF file, Acrobat sets the
specification giving the location of the FDF file relative to that of the file from which it was exported.
133. If an FDF file being imported contains fields whose fully qualified names are not in the form, Acrobat
discards those fields. This feature can be useful, for example, if an FDF file containing commonly used
fields (such as name and address) is used to populate various types of forms, not all of which
necessarily include all of the fields available in the FDF file.
134. As shown in Table 8.96 on page 717, the only required entry in the field dictionary is
for exporting FDF with fields containing
are desired in the FDF files returned in response. For example, a server accessing a database might use
this information to decide whether to transmit all fields in a record or just some selected ones. As noted
in implementation note 133, the Acrobat implementation of interactive forms ignores fields in the
imported FDF file that do not exist in the form.
135. The Acrobat implementation of forms allows the option of submitting the data in a submit-form action
in HTML Form format for the benefit of existing server scripts written to process such forms. Note,
however, that any such existing scripts that generate new HTML forms in response need to be modified
to generate FDF instead.
136. When scaling a button's appearance to the bounds of an annotation, versions of Acrobat earlier than
6.0 always took into account the line width used to draw the border, even when no border was being
drawn. Beginning with Acrobat 6.0, the
allows the option of ignoring the line width.
8.6.6 Forms Data Format (FDF Pages)
137. Acrobat renames fields by prepending a page number, a template name, and an ordinal number to the
field name. The ordinal number corresponds to the order in which the template is applied to a page,
with 0 being the first template specified for the page. For example, if the first template used on the fifth
page has the name Template and has the
renamed by prepending the character string
138. Adobe Extreme® printing systems require that the
value supported by Acrobat 4.0 is Shift-JIS. Acrobat 5.0 supports Shift-JIS, UHC,
Encoding
Implementation Notes to the PDF Reference, sixth edition
PDFDocEncoding
entry in the FDF dictionary to a relative file
F
entries but no
entries is to indicate to a server which fields
T
V
entry in the icon fit dictionary (see Table 8.97 on page 719)
FB
flag set to
Rename
true
P5.Template_0.
flag be
Rename
Implementation Notes
entry, if any, in an
Status
, is used.
and
entries. Acrobat does,
V
AP
. One possible use
T
, fields defined in that template are
to their field names.
.
true
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entry when
V
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