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I'm using XFDF files to fill out PDF-forms serverside with PHP and pdftk but my problem is that no non-english characters (ä, ö, å etc.) are printed to the form fields. Here is the function I use to parse the XFDF file: function createFDF($file,$info,$enc='UTF-8'){ $data='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.$enc.'"?>'."\n". '<xfdf xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/" xml:space="preserve">'."\n". '<fields>'."\n"; foreach($info as $field => $val){ $data.='<field name="'.$field.'">'."\n"; if(is_array($val)){ foreach($val as $opt) $data.='<value>'.htmlentities($opt,ENT_COMPAT,$enc).'</value>'."\n"; }else

My scenario: A PDF template with formfields: template.pdf An XFDF file that contains the data to be filled in: fieldData.xfdf Now I need to have these to files combined & flattened. pdftk does the job easily within php: exec("pdftk template.pdf fill_form fieldData.xfdf output flatFile.pdf flatten"); Unfortunately this does not work with full utf-8 support. For example: Cyrillic and greek letters get scrambled. I used Arial for this, with an unicode character set. How can I accomplish to flatten my unicode files? Is there any other pdf tool that offers unicode support? Does pdftk have an

Is it possible to merge FDF data with a PDF file using PHP alone? Or is there no option but to use a 3rd party command line tool to achieve this? If that is the case can someone point me in the direction of one? I am currently outputting the FDF file to the browser in the hope that it will redirect the user to the filled in PDF but for some people that is not the case. The FDF contents is being output to the screen, even though I am using header('Content-type: application/vnd.fdf'); For future reference, it looks like there isn't a reliable way of doing it without a 3rd party app. Pdftk ( http