Abstract
This chapter builds on the discussion of PDF forms in Chapter 7. In particular, I’d like to point the reader to the treatment of the Forms Data Format (FDF) in Section 7.4. This chapter covers form processing from the server’s point of view, or more appropriately, the Webmaster’s. Again, we will use the Guagua sample form which can be used for ordering travel information. The form is shown in Figure 10.1 with the field names visible. Filling the fields and exporting the field contents (via “File”, “Export”, “Form Data…”) or sending the form to a Web server (with an appropriate PDF push button) yields FDF data similar to the following:
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Merz, T. (1998). Form Data Processing. In: Web Publishing with Acrobat/PDF. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72032-1_10
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