Count me in on this one too - it's another thing I find amazing that InDesign (still, amazingly) can't do, and it would be that much cooler if Prince did.
We definitely want to do this, but there are many other things on the roadmap that we need to get through first. We'll get there as soon as we can; possibly sooner, if we can clone our developers.
I work for a large company and have just been asked to find a product so we can export documents (built on the fly according to user input) as editable PDFs. As we operate in several countries, from separate hosting, we'll need several server licences for starters.
That should help you clone a developer!
Our requirement is just for input fields in the first instance (second would be textfield, then radio/check boxes - nothing fancy, as the PDF has to be printable.
We've hunted around for a PDF solution, with high quality output - this seems to be it. We just need editable fields...
Currently we are committed to delivering JavaScript DOM functionality needed for charting libraries, so it will have to wait a while. It might help if you could email me (mikeday@yeslogic.com) more details on your requirements; there is a lot of variation when it comes to PDF forms, and no clear specification for us to work towards.
Hi Mike and PrinceXML Team, Is it possible to generate editable PDF from Prince XML especially survey forms ? Some of our end users need this feature . Also would Adobe Reader support editing or do we need to have the entire Acrobat suite to Edit ? If Prince XML PDF can be opened in Adobe Suite as it to make it editable , that would also be a interesting choice to explore . Can you please let us know ?
Is there any idea of a date on when it would be available/started developing/put on priority? This idea seems to rot in the roadmap for 8 years now, and I see I am not the only one interested in it
Just wondering how difficult it would be to make the HTML input elements analogous to their PDF counterparts. That's pretty much what we're all asking for.
@abitgone you are pretty consistent person. Other people already switched jobs, several times, moved to something else, where they don't need Forms in PDF
At the moment we are fully occupied with various features scheduled for release in Prince 11 later this year, so we will not be able to support PDF forms in the near future.
I think we'd love to have this on DocRaptor some day. It's not the highest priority, but we probably turn away a baker's dozen of customers every year who want this feature.
Any chance this feature will be available in the next release? We would like to use PrinceXML in our upcoming project for a big automotive client, but this feature is critical for this project.
Bump. This would be fantastic. I use Prince to generate a ton of PDF forms. It's extremely painstaking to go through and manually markup 10+ pages of PDF with form elements in Acrobat after generation. Where this sucks the most is when there is design feedback and the underlying HTML has to be changed, rerun through prince; rinse-repeat.
Would be amazing to have this capability Thank you!
