I would like the community to provide feedback on forms in PDF. Note that I am not asking fillable forms (the one with user inputs). I am talking about Form XObjects as in the PDF Specifications. In a very short way to describe it, Form XObject allows re-using a content though a document. For the curious people, the complete definition awaits below
My question is: have you experienced production issues while your PDF contained such Forms XObjects? Could PitStop help you in dealing with those objects? Did you find a different workaround, and if yes, how?
Finally, what would be a good way from your point of view to tackle Form XObjects if you could have a magic wand at your disposal?
Thanks in advance for your feedback here.
Loic
A form XObject is a PDF content stream that is a self-contained description of any sequence of graphics objects (including path objects, text objects, and sampled images). A form XObject may be painted multiple times — either on several pages or at several locations on the same page — and produces the same results each time, subject only to the graphics state at the time it is invoked. Not only is this shared definition economical to represent in the PDF file, but under suitable circumstances the PDF processor can optimise execution by caching the results of rendering the form XObject for repeated reuse.