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I am working on proof of concept for generating PDF filled forms (usually forms from government say IRS tax form and other sites), data will be coming from JSON or XML.

I was evaluating Apache FOP for this where XML is data part and XSL is formatting part but my question is how I can XSL for complex forms? I tried to search if I can get it already on these sites but no luck.

Usually should we create XSL manually by reverse engineering PDF forms?

Certain forms I am using for examples are really complex for reverse engineering.

Thanks, Rushik.

Rushik
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    RenderX has a commercial application called VisualXSL where you can import an existing PDF and design on top of it. It exports XSL for use in XSL FO solutions. – Kevin Brown Sep 16 '14 at 16:13
  • Thanks Kevin, Do you know if we have any open source counterpart for similar functionality? – Rushik Sep 16 '14 at 19:48
  • Sorry, I do not know of anything that has similar functionality to VisualXSL. – Kevin Brown Sep 16 '14 at 20:00

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