pdf-xfa 1.0.0

XFA engine — extraction, layout rendering, font resolution. Experimental and under active development.
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pdf-xfa

XFA processing engine — extraction, layout rendering, font resolution. Experimental — under active development.

This crate is part of PDFluent, a pure-Rust PDF SDK. Source: https://github.com/pdfluent/pdfluent-sdk.

AGPL-3.0 or a commercial licence, at your option — see the Licence section below.

What it does

Implements the XFA (XML Forms Architecture) processing pipeline used by Dutch government forms, banking forms, and other complex interactive PDFs that AcroForms cannot represent. Parses the XFA template, merges with data, runs FormCalc expressions, lays out pages, and renders to PDF or paginated output.

Status

Experimental. XFA support is still under active development. Structural flatten and the public XFA API are panic-free and propagate all errors as typed Results; crash-safety and timeout gates run on an internal corpus of real forms. Visual fidelity versus reference output is not a published claim; validate on your own forms before relying on rendering parity. Use behind a feature flag.

Usage

Most users do not depend on this crate directly. Use the pdfluent facade with the xfa-flatten feature:

use pdfluent::prelude::*;

For low-level access, see https://pdfluent.com/docs.

Licence

AGPL-3.0 or a commercial licence, at your option. The AGPL is the default and the complete product: there is no licence key, no activation call and no tier, and every feature works in every build. If you cannot accept the copyleft obligation, the commercial licence is sold yearly and self-service at pdfluent.com/sdk/pricing, in four options: Commercial (per organisation), OEM Startup and OEM (per product), and Priority support (an add-on). The two texts are LICENSE and LICENSE-COMMERCIAL in this crate.

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