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          SECTION 8.6                                                       Interactive Forms



BIT POSITION   NAME                 MEANING

6              XFDF                 (PDF 1.4) Meaningful only if the SubmitPDF flags are clear. If set,
                                    field names and values are submitted as XFDF.

7              IncludeAppendSaves   (PDF 1.4) Meaningful only when the form is being submitted in
                                    Forms Data Format (that is, when both the XFDF and ExportFor-
                                    mat flags are clear). If set, the submitted FDF file includes the con-
                                    tents of all incremental updates to the underlying PDF document,
                                    as contained in the Differences entry in the FDF dictionary (see
                                    Table 8.93 on page 714). If clear, the incremental updates are not in-
                                    cluded.

8              IncludeAnnotations   (PDF 1.4) Meaningful only when the form is being submitted in
                                    Forms Data Format (that is, when both the XFDF and ExportFor-
                                    mat flags are clear). If set, the submitted FDF file includes all mark-
                                    up annotations in the underlying PDF document (see “Markup
                                    Annotations” on page 616). If clear, markup annotations are not in-
                                    cluded.

9              SubmitPDF            (PDF 1.4) If set, the document is submitted as PDF, using the
                                    MIME content type application / pdf (described in Internet RFC
                                    2045, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME), Part One:
                                    Format of Internet Message Bodies; see the Bibliography). If set, all
                                    other flags are ignored except GetMethod.

10             CanonicalFormat      (PDF 1.4) If set, any submitted field values representing dates are
                                    converted to the standard format described in Section 3.8.3,
                                    “Dates.” (The interpretation of a form field as a date is not specified
                                    explicitly in the field itself but only in the JavaScript code that pro-
                                    cesses it.)

11             ExclNonUserAnnots    (PDF 1.4) Meaningful only when the form is being submitted in
                                    Forms Data Format (that is, when both the XFDF and
                                    ExportFormat flags are clear) and the IncludeAnnotations flag is
                                    set. If set, it includes only those markup annotations whose T entry
                                    (see Table 8.21) matches the name of the current user, as deter-
                                    mined by the remote server to which the form is being submitted.
                                    (The T entry for markup annotations specifies the text label to be
                                    displayed in the title bar of the annotation’s pop-up window and is
                                    assumed to represent the name of the user authoring the annota-
                                    tion.) This allows multiple users to collaborate in annotating a sin-
                                    gle remote PDF document without affecting one another’s
                                    annotations.

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