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Update: Does this require the Adobe Standard version or Professional Version?

Using Adobe 5.0, I clicked on File, Export, and then Form Data. There were no special choices. I can tell by looking at the .fdf file that it is a fdf not xfdf file but even so, it does not give me any field names.

Assuming that I am using Adobe 5.0 and I can create the xfdf file, should the xfdf file display all of the fields (that can be filled on the .pdf form) in xml format so I know what the structure of the xml xfdf file I need to create in VFP should look like?

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>>Thanks for the info Paul. This is my next hot project to accomplish. Where can I get information on Xfdf format so I can do some practice runs creating the fdf file? I was under the impression that I needed to create fdf files so the Adobe Acrobat Reader would automatically link it with the appropriate pdf file (that is already created with the appropriate fields to be filled in by the fdf file).
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>Just take any PDF file that has form fields on it, select "File", "Export", "Form Data", then select "XFDF" as the filetype. It will create the XFDF file for you, which makes it really easy to figure out. You can link to the PDF file using a line like:
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>< f href="/pdf/MyPDF.pdf"/ >
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>I've got it as the last line before the line, but I don't know if that matters. When the XFDF file is opened, it will automatically open the PDF, same as it does with an FDF.
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>The only downside to using the XFDF format instead of FDF, is that you have to deal with all the same XML problems (encoding special characters, etc.). For example, if you had an entry in a character field that contained: "< /field >" (w/o the spaces), you'll have problems. You'd need to encode the < and > as HTML. Same as any other XML doc.
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