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  1. Bug #321720
  2. Comment #39

Comment 39 for bug 321720

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In , Paulepanter (paulepanter) wrote :

Sorry, but just to make sure, has there been any progress in the mean time?

The PDF viewer (pdf.js) included Firefox 45.3.0 is also *not* able to “correctly” display the form. There is an open issue in their bug tracker [1], where they take the stand, to not support it, until it’s part of the ISO PDF standard, and suggest to add support with an extension.

> Since this isn't currently part of the ISO standard there are no plans to
> implement it. Until it is in the ISO standard, it would probably be best if the
> support was added in some kind of "extension" to pdf.js in a separate repo.
>
> If someone is serious and wants put the work into adding it into mainstream
> pdf.js they should ping me and I could look into the implications.

1. Is XFA free?
2. What alternatives are there?

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/2373
    "Support XML Forms Architecture (XFA) forms"