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AcroForms vs XFA Forms

AcroForms are the fillable forms that are used to integrate the form fields in PDF documents. It was the initial forms technology adopted by Adobe for the PDF documents starting from PDF 1.2 specification. AcroForms allow adding the form fields as an overlay to collect the data from the end-users or anyone using the document.

Later, Adobe adopted the XML-based XFA forms (XML Forms Architecture) as part of the PDF 1.5 specification after acquiring Accelio (a … Continue Reading