<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I am surprised that other PDF editing programs haven\u2019t offered this functionality. <br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 19, 2024, at 8:36\u202fAM, Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/2024 9:27 AM, Michael Dryja
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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>
</blockquote><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. </p>
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