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<p>They can't. Adobe engineered things in its latest iterations of
Acrobat so that it is very difficult for other companies to
reverse-engineer the XML import-export functionality.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/2024 9:45 AM, Michael Dryja via
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I am surprised that other PDF editing programs haven\u2019t offered
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<div>On Apr 19, 2024, at 8:36\u202fAM, Carl Oppedahl
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/2024 9:27 AM, Michael
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The one thing that Acrobat has going for it is that I
haven\u2019t found another PDF editing program that permits
you to import format data via XML in order to generate
ADSs and IDSs. <br>
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<p>I am sure you did not intend it, but it turns out that
you did not word the previous sentence accurately.</p>
<p>The USPTO did something that is anti-competitive, and
that unnecessarily forces customers to license expensive
recurring-cost commercial Acrobat software. What the
USPTO did was construct its recent versions of its
fillable official USPTO PDF forms in such a way that <i><b>no
PDF editing program other than paid-for,
recurring-cost Acrobat</b></i> permits you to import
format data via XML in order to generate ADSs and IDSs.
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