[Tex/LaTex] extracting data from an interactive form

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I am currently creating a fillable PDF – Form for a survey (I know, there are more convenient ways…).
I wonder wether there is an option to make the participants' data available for further analysis, for example a button that creates an .xml – file with containing the relevant data. The often referred to 'submit' – Button does not serve my needs as my mail provider is not supporting IMAP.
Hope my question is concise enough.

Best Answer

It is not the Submit action, but you can set a (Acrobat) JavaScript action using

this.exportAsXFDF() ;

which would export a data file with field name/field value pairs, in XML format. XFDF is the XML representation of the PDF-native FDF, Forms Data Format.

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You can use the pdfjam tool with the syntax

pdfjam <input file> <page ranges> -o <output file>

and an example of page ranges would be

3,67-70,80

to extract page 3, pages 67 to 70 and page 80, and put these pages into a single document. Note however that this will break the hyperlinks in your document.

[edit] pdfjam is actually a front end for pdfpages, suggested in an other answer.

You could also use pdfseparate from poppler to burst a document into separate pages. Using

pdfseparate <document> 'page_%d.pdf'

using the result of pdfjam as a document will give you files named page_1.pdf … page_6.pdf containing all the desired pages.

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You can specify the height of a text field and set the multiline option to true. Try this minimal working example (MWE).

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\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\begin{Form}
\noindent
\TextField[name=multilinetextbox, multiline=true, width=\linewidth,height=1in]{}
\end{Form}
\end{document}

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