8.6 Interactive Forms
An
interactive form (PDF 1.2)—sometimes
referred to as an
AcroForm—is
a
collection of
fields
for gathering information interactively from the user. A PDF
document may contain any number of fields appearing on any combination of
pages, all of which make up a single, global interactive form spanning the entire
document. Arbitrary subsets of these fields can be imported or exported from the
document; see Section 8.6.4, “Form Actions.”
Note:
Interactive forms should not be confused with form XObjects (see Section 4.9,
“Form XObjects”). Despite the similarity of names, the two are different, unrelated
types of objects.