Bug 695117 - XFA support needed
Summary: XFA support needed
Status: NOTIFIED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Ghostscript
Classification: Unclassified
Component: PDF Interpreter (show other bugs)
Version: master
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 enhancement
Assignee: Ken Sharp
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2014-03-26 11:06 UTC by Marcos H. Woehrmann
Modified: 2015-05-21 13:22 UTC (History)
0 users

See Also:
Customer: 384 580
Word Size: ---

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Marcos H. Woehrmann 2014-03-26 11:06:35 UTC 
The customer would like support added for XFA PDF files: https://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/xml/index_arch.html
Comment 2 Ken Sharp 2014-03-26 14:09:03 UTC 
Basically, we can't do this, and XFA support is *not* part of the PDF specification, it is an optional addendum.

XFA is a completely different (XML) language to PDF< and it would be a major effort to add an XML parser to Ghostscript simply to handle these sorts of files.

Its not even clear to me what the customer would like us to do with a form anyway, its not like Ghostscript is an interactive application which could be used to fill in the form.

I'm marking this as WONTFIX, though I'm open to suggestions and dissenting arguments from the staff.