Passthrough not passing through form elements

[Joachim_L]

When you place a PDF with form elements as Passthrough, the form elements will be shown (even form elements are highlighted), but the form is not preserved, when you export as PDF again.

Additionally, more painful, checkboxes and radios I made are omitted, when the form PDF is opened / edited. I had hope, that these elements were kept, as they were simple rectangles, circles made in ID.

More a feature request?

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, Joachim_L said:

Additionally, more painful, checkboxes and radios I made are omitted, when the form PDF is opened / edited.

I would expect all the content to be there visually in the PDF exported from Publisher, so if it's not that seems like a bug.

However, I'm not sure what you mean by opening and editing the form PDF.

The PDF you export is not a "form PDF". It is a PDF created by Publisher, and Publisher cannot create forms. I would not expect that having another PDF embedded within the Publisher PDF would change that.

Or are PDF viewers more clever than I realize? Can they Open an inner-PDF contained in an outer-PDF, as Publisher can do with its Edit Document button? I would expect that a Passthrough PDF just gives you an accurate visual reprsentation of the PDF content, but I suppose it could allow more than that and I just haven't realized that yet.

[Joachim_L]

Just now, walt.farrell said:

However, I'm not sure what you mean by opening and editing the form PDF.

When I open the PDF containing form elements.

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I would expect that a Passthrough PDF just gives you an accurate visual reprsentation of the PDF content

Or does it literally means that the PDF is not changed by a single bit, even when containing a form? But my only concern is, that graphical elements will be removed.

 

[AlanPickup]

I have used PagePlus to design editable pdf forms and out of interest i tried placing one of these in an APub document, and I think what Joachim means is that although the pdf fields showin in Apub they do not carry through to the pdf when exported see below Apub screen grab and pdf export screen grab. The blue hilight elements are fields

 

 

I have used pdfsam basic to merge a aPub pdf with an editable pdf from another app

[Gabe]

Hi all,

PDF forms are not meant o be resaved/re-exported so it's expected what you see -them turning into a basic (plain) pdf. 

If you attach a sample file with simple elements missing, we can log that. 

[Joachim_L]

9 minutes ago, Gabe said:

If you attach a sample file with simple elements missing, we can log that.

Attached a simple form consisting of a rectangle / circle as a checkbox / radio button exported as PDF Interactive from ID CS6.

simple-form.pdf

[Gabe]

Well, that is still an interactive feature(regardless of how you created it), and not plain curves.  We can't import/passthrough any interactive features, so what you see now (things missing) is expected. 

[Joachim_L]

19 minutes ago, Gabe said:

Well, that is still an interactive feature(regardless of how you created it), and not plain curves.

Poppler has a different opinion about my file, when I use this library with Inkscape. To shorten this: I will patiently wait for official form support in the Affinities.

[Gabe]

We don't use Poppler, but PDFlib. 

[Joachim_L]

30 minutes ago, Gabe said:

We don't use Poppler, but PDFlib.

Sure??