SECTION 8.6
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Interactive Forms
KEY
TYPE
VALUE
Pages
array
(Optional; PDF 1.3)
An array of FDF page dictionaries (see “FDF
target document. The
Fields
and
Status
entries may not be present
together with this entry.
(Optional; PDF 1.3)
The encoding to be used for any FDF field
value or option (
V
or
Opt
in the field dictionary; see Table 8.96 on
Unicode prefix
U+FEFF
. (See implementation note 129 in Appendix
PDFDocEncoding
.
(Optional; PDF 1.3)
An array of FDF annotation dictionaries (see
annotations of any of the standard types listed in Table 8.20 on page
Link
,
Movie
,
Widget
,
PrinterMark
,
Screen
, and
TrapNet
.
(Optional; PDF 1.4)
A stream containing all the bytes in all incre-
mental updates made to the underlying PDF document since it was
opened (see Section 3.4.5, “Incremental Updates”). If a submit-
form action submitting the document to a remote server as FDF has
its IncludeAppendSaves flag set (see “Submit-Form Actions” on
sion. This allows any digital signatures (see Section 8.7, “Digital
is automatically performed just before the submission takes place,
in order to capture all changes made to the document. Note that the
submission always includes the full set of incremental updates back
to the time the document was first opened, even if some of them
may already have been included in intervening submissions.
Note:
Although a
Fields
or
Annots
entry (or both) may be present
along with
Differences
, there is no guarantee that their contents will
be consistent with it. In particular, if
Differences
contains a digital sig-
nature, only the values of the form fields given in the
Differences
stream can be considered trustworthy under that signature.
Encoding
name
Annots
array
Differences
stream
Target
string
(Optional; PDF 1.4)
The name of a browser frame in which the un-
derlying PDF document is to be opened. This mimics the behavior
of the
target
attribute in HTML
< href >
tags.
(Optional; PDF 1.4)
An array of file specifications (see Section 3.10,
in this one (Section 3.10.3, “Embedded File Streams”).
EmbeddedFDFs
array