Apache PDFBox Hits 2.0 (sdtimes.com)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @04:16PM from the file-formats-rule-the-world dept.

mmoorebz writes: After three years of development and with over 150 contributors to the code, Apache PDFBox 2.0 has been released. With this release comes enhancements and improvements. The Apache PDFBox library is an open-source Java tool for working with PDF documents. The project allows creation and manipulation of PDF documents, and the ability to extract content from them. Support for forms in open-source PDF viewers is currently disappointing, and I hope this heralds improvement on that front.

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Re: XFA Should be a top priority. by jrumney · 2016-03-22 19:45 · Score: 3, Interesting

Xforms would be better as it is non proprietary
Are you serious? Xforms has been a standard since 2003, and almost no software supports it, and no organization uses it. This is a pretty clear sign that it is dead, and not worth supporting. XFA is at least supported by one software package that is widely used in business, and used by Government agencies worldwide, among others. And while it is "proprietary" in that one company controls the specification, it is hardly a secret.