Developping import / export of Acroform javascript

[cney-afluens]

Hi guys,
You did a great job ! My company is looking for a solution that could export / import all javascript of a pdf document as done by Acrobat Pro.
Do you think you could implement this ?
If so can we contract ?
Thanks
Christophe

[Lucas-C]

Hi @cney-afluens

pdfly is based on pypdf, that is able to read PDF documents and also create ones, with support for Javascript:
https://pypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/add-javascript.html

I think you maybe should consider writing a Python script to do what you want to achieve, based on pypdf (or some other Python library that supports reading & writing JS: https://py-pdf.github.io/fpdf2/#related).

Regarding contracting, @py-pdf is managed by a group of volunteers, not a professional organization.
You could however contract individually with some existing maintainer or contributor of the project for this job.
I'm personnaly not available, but feel free to ask away 🙂
You could post a message there for example: https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/discussions

[cney-afluens]

Hi Lucas,
Thanks for the detailed answer.
Considering the very little documentation on javascript support, I am still confused on javascript support by pypdf.
I will conduct further investigations.
Thanks,
Christophe