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ysrdevs 82b709d516 XFA: import and export data files, and pictures for image fields (#1175)
Export Data on an XFA form writes its data as Acrobat does: XML (the
data alone, rooted at the form's root data node, its namespaces
declared) or an XDP holding the whole datasets and a reference to the
PDF (.xdp, a new format). Import Data takes an XDP, a datasets or data element, or a
data document whose root is the form's root data node, and makes it
the form's whole data, keeping data descriptions; a laid-out form is
laid out again from it (rows added and removed) and its calculations
run; XFDF, FDF and tables still go the AcroForm way. Undoable.

Image fields are now buttons marked /PCXfaImage (no PDF action): the
forms layer treats one as an image field, so clicking it (or
form_set_image) picks a picture, which is kept in the data as base64
with its xfa:contentType, as Designer saves it, and the laid-out form
shows it from there.

xfa: replace_data, write_data_image (hostile content types cleaned,
32 MB cap), export_data, import_data (64 MB cap, the parser's node
limit, self-closing data elements). engine: export routing by
document kind, import routing by the file's root element, re-layout
and calculation after the data changes outside the fields, the
picture's content type from its bytes. UI: XML and XDP in the export
dialog of an XFA form, .xdp in the import filter. Tool texts, README
and parity (form.xfa-data) updated.

Hardened after an adversarial review pass: the file's data is held as
a tree and written with the packet's own namespace prefix (never its
markup), every packet rewrite is parsed back before it is written,
files capped at 16 MB and 64 levels (a tag scan before the recursive
parser, also guarding the datasets parser), pictures at 8 MB and PNG/
JPEG/GIF only, the file's shape and root name checked, UTF-16 and
ISO-8859-1 decoded, pictures into data groups refused, cleaned names
for pictures, static forms empty the fields the file doesn't hold,
more rows than the layout cap reported, one datasets stream per edit,
and only image fields take pictures into the data.
2026-10-11 18:29:35 -04:00
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pdfcraft-xfdf

Layer L4: comment and form data exchange (execution plan M5.6, M6.7).

let xml = export_xfdf(&doc, true, true, "form.pdf");   // comments and/or field values
let fdf = export_fdf(&doc, false, true, "form.pdf");
let txt = export_data(&doc, Format::Txt);               // or Xml, Csv
let report = import(&mut doc, &bytes)?;                 // XFDF, FDF, XML, CSV or text, detected
  • XFDF (ISO 19444-1): every comment type PdfCraft knows (text, free text, line, square, circle, polygon, polyline, markup, stamp, caret, ink, attachments, sound, redact) with rect, name, author, subject, dates, flags, colours, opacity, width, icon, quads, line ends, ink, default appearance, callouts (callout, fringe, intent, head), pop-ups and reply threads (inreplyto); field values nested by name.
  • FDF: fields (with /Kids hierarchies) and comments as direct objects.
  • Form data: Acrobat's XML (xfdf:original keeps names that aren't XML names), CSV and tab-delimited text (a row of names, a row of values).

Import replaces comments with the same /NM (and drops the replaced comment's pop-up), draws appearances PdfCraft can draw, and sets values through the form's own checks (formats, validation, recalculation); read-only fields take imported values, as in Acrobat. XML is read with roxmltree.