On 12/27/13 12:24, Larry Evans wrote:
Opening the irs f1040 form for 2012:f1040.pdf with LibreOffice4.1.2.3 on my ubuntu system: ~/prog_dev/LibreOffice/file_conversion/inp $ uname -a Linux evansl-Inspiron-531 3.2.0-57-generic #87-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 21:35:10 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ~/prog_dev/LibreOffice/file_conversion/inp $ and saving as f1040.fodg did not preserve the field types. IOW, the checkboxes in the .pdf were coded as: <draw:polygon draw:style-name="gr5" draw:layer="layout" svg:width="0.281cm" svg:height="0.281cm" svg:x="4.642cm" svg:y="7.267cm" svg:viewBox="0 0 282 282" draw:points="0,282 282,282 282,0 0,0"> <text:p/> </draw:polygon> <draw:frame draw:style-name="gr45" draw:layer="layout" svg:width="0.273cm" svg:height="0.336cm" svg:x="4.161cm" svg:y="7.264cm"> <draw:text-box> <text:p text:style-name="P1"><text:span text:style-name="T13">2 </text:span></text:p> </draw:text-box> </draw:frame> <draw:frame draw:style-name="gr47" draw:layer="layout" svg:width="7.249cm" svg:height="0.336cm" svg:x="5.08cm" svg:y="7.27cm"> <draw:text-box> <text:p text:style-name="P1"><text:span text:style-name="T7">Married filing jointly (even if only one had income) </text:span></text:p> </draw:text-box> </draw:frame> which gives no indication its a checkbox of any sort. The same is true of text fields because the "First Name and intial" field is coded as: <draw:frame draw:style-name="gr176" draw:layer="layout" svg:width="3.922cm" svg:height="0.336cm" svg:x="1.34cm" svg:y="3.05cm"> <draw:text-box> <text:p text:style-name="P1"><text:span text:style-name="T25">YourFirstNameAndInitial</text:span></text:p> </draw:text-box> </draw:frame> Are there any plans to actually convert the fields into some form of xform fields which are currently available in LibreOffice writer: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/XML_Form_Documents_XForms ? TIA. -regards, Larry Evans
FWIW, idrsolutions is already doing this conversion, but to html5 instead of to odf: http://www.idrsolutions.com/jpedalxfa/ I tried their online converter on the f1040.pdf file, and, in the resulting html, I could edit the fields and save them. -regards, Larry _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
