Can't display N-400 form

[cbiesinger]

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/n-400.pdf

This is with the pdf.js from Firefox Nightly 19.0a1 (2012-11-02). I just get a "Please wait..." message:

If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF
viewer may not be able to display this type of document

[gigaherz]

IIRC, PDF.js doesn't support rendering of XFA forms layers. There are other related issues but I don't remember their numbers.

[waddlesplash]

Related: #1452, #1459, #2135.
#2135 was closed because it was dup of #1459, and this is too.
Close?

[yurydelendik]

It's a dup of #1824

The JavaScript inside this document explicitly checks in Adobe Reader is installed and if it's specific version. Otherwise it's how PDF document looks like. Also, it's XFA and not AcroForms.

[waddlesplash]

Will you eventually support JS in PDFs?

[yurydelendik]

probably... even if we support it, we have to spoof adobe reader and its version

[waddlesplash]

Just a thought - you'll have to provide some callback so the viewer knows what got added so it can update text selection or add an input. Some ways of implementing this may cause pdf.js not to work outside of web browsers... Say, the node backend that @jviereck created.

[SergeySagan]

This would be a super awesome feature to implement. I definitely vote up on this issue. Is there anyway to open a PDF serverside and remove the Reader and version requirements (especially C#) then output the PDF via MemoryStream? A Google search didn't seem to turn anything up on the subject, but this seems like something that should be possible.

[gigaherz]

This is the wrong place to ask such a question, the comments are meant for commenting on the issue, or replying to another comment in topic.

Regardless, this is the first result when I searched for "render PDF server-side": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8840634/what-server-side-pdf-rendering-components-can-i-use-with-net-php-ruby-etc

"Opensource pdf renderer" gave me http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1645005/open-source-pdf-renderer-for-net

[marco-c]

The PDF is no longer available, and we landed support for XFA recently anyway.

[cbiesinger]

Looks like the form is now at https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/n-400.pdf but I don't know if it still uses XFA. Glad to hear you support XFA now!