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Thank you for this very detailed answer. XFDF seems to be more easily generated (given that there are xml libraries for every language/framework), so that's what I will probably try first.

eike
– eike

2021-04-01 10:23:22 +00:00
Commented Apr 1, 2021 at 10:23
That seems to only work for filling forms reported in the FDF/XFDF file. How can a apply an FDF/XFDF file of annotations (I exported the FDF/XFDF file from Acrobat) to a PDF?

Geremia
– Geremia

2023-03-22 03:47:50 +00:00
Commented Mar 22, 2023 at 3:47
@Geremia - that is a separate question

FelixJN
– FelixJN

2023-04-14 16:19:37 +00:00
Commented Apr 14, 2023 at 16:19
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for part '2. Create fdf-file', you can also use pdftk: pdftk infile.pdf generate_fdf output foo.fdf

Jaleks
– Jaleks

2023-11-13 09:45:14 +00:00
Commented Nov 13, 2023 at 9:45

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