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manu-gupta
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November 15, 2021
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Automate the conversion of the XFA PDFs to standard PDFs with form fields

  • November 15, 2021
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Hi members

We are having XFA based forms developed using Designer 6.5 and also we need to source it other channel as Standard Acroform PDF, we tried converting flat to acroform using Prepare form option in Acrobat Professional, but it is not retaining original field names of XFA.

Any pointers

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Best answer by Mayank_Tiwari

Have you tried this programmatically as given here:

https://blog.aspose.com/2020/03/31/acroforms-vs-xfa-forms-convert-xfa-to-acroforms-in-pdf/

 

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Pulkit_Jain_
Adobe Employee
Pulkit_Jain_Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
November 15, 2021

@manu-gupta 

This old thread provides multiple solutions  to convert XFA form to Acroform but the field name discrepancy seems to be an issue.

Quoting one of the responses "XFA PDFs contain an AcroForm dictionary at the Cos level, but they are not accessible in the same way as AcroForm fields are"  - this could be the reason why.

    Mayank_Tiwari
    Adobe Employee
    Mayank_TiwariAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
    Adobe Employee
    November 16, 2021

    Have you tried this programmatically as given here:

    https://blog.aspose.com/2020/03/31/acroforms-vs-xfa-forms-convert-xfa-to-acroforms-in-pdf/

     

      manu-gupta
      manu-guptaAuthor
      Level 4
      November 18, 2021

      Aspose jar is a paid solution and the jar they share is used for just development, production version require licensing.

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