Executing "pdftk my-pdf-form.pdf dump_data_fields" shows nothing

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dlopezgonzalez picture dlopezgonzalez · May 20, 2015 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

I am using the tool pdftk, I have got a editable PDF and I saw in the documentation the arguments dump_data_fields should show me the fields of the form.

I use this command (windows): pdftk my-pdf-form.pdf dump_data_fields

I am using the pdftk server edition.

Documentation: https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-man-page/

The point is that the PDF is editable, it has got fields to write with Adobe PDF Viewer.

Answer

dlopezgonzalez picture dlopezgonzalez · May 25, 2015

The problem was that the pdf was created by Adobe LiveCycle Designer and was save as "Adobe Dynamic XML From". The solution is saving the file as "Adobe Static PDF Form". Possibly pdftk cannot deal with that livecycle files.

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