Pdfmake: Allow PDF to create PDF forms

[natcohen]

Would be awesome to be able to create a fillable input (https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake/issues/156 is from a pdf form, I'm talking about creating the input...)

[jthoenes]

I don't know what you mean by that. Can you be more specific?

[natcohen]

Some pdf have input forms, I would like to be able to add such input to a document so you can generate fillable forms. Is it clearer?

[jthoenes]

How's that dufferent from #156?

Some pdf have input forms, I would like to be able to add such input to a
document so you can generate fillable forms. Is it clearer?

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[natcohen]

The first sentence says it all: "I'm looking to generate a pdf from an existing pdf "template""! I'm not looking to fill templates but to create them! Not fill the inputs but create them...

[jthoenes]

OK, understood. So this is a pre-requisite to #156.

I would lift up your hopes that it is coming soon, because we don't have the capability to do it in pdfkit. See devongovett/pdfkit#227

If you need it, try to help building it in pdfkit first and then enable it here. Happy to help with pull requests.

[gwdp]

It seems that PDFKit is almost supporting AcroForms... https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit/pull/1002

I guess we can start to think of supporting it on pdfmake now? I can volunteer myself for implementing it as it seems to be a requirement for my current project.

[hsHemant]

Hi Guys, Any plan for this? @gwdp

[musso]

@liborm85 @jthoenes Seem that pdfkit supports the Arcoform now. Any plans to update in future?

[dselman]

I'd also be interested in support for generating PDF forms via the nice declarative syntax of pdfmake.

[majid701]

@gwdp Any updates on this one? Were you able to embed fillable forms in a PDF file?