[XeTeX] XeTeX and PDF Forms

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 5 févr. 08 à 17:51, mike leonard a écrit :

> I hope it's not poor etiquette to respond to my own post. I'm guessing
> that the lack of responses indicates that there's really no way to use
> XeTeX for creating fill-in forms. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Is
> this something that could be accomplished using PDF \specials somehow?
> I know that other features of hyperref do work with XeTeX and I'm
> really hoping to find a solution for creating PDF forms.

There have been threads on fill-in PDF forms either here or on the OS  
X TeX list. I'm not quite sure I'm remembering the outcome correctly,  
but if memory serves right the sad conclusion was that, in order to  
allow forms to be filled in using free applications (like Adobe  
Reader, xpdf or, on OS X, Preview), you needed to use the commercial  
Adobe Acrobat. Again, I may be mixing things up, but I'm not: there is  
somewhere a bit to activate in the PDF file, authorizing Adobe Reader  
to edit the forms, and only Acrobat (the commercial stuff) can  
activate this bit.

Hope knowledgable people can confirm or correct the above.

Bruno Voisin