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by samadmin 3136 days ago
It's a valid concern which is why form.ac data is stored locally and is only transferred to generate the form and is then erased from the server. I think it should be possible to do it all client side with a modern browser but I haven't had a chance to do a proof of concept of that yet.

It's also worth considering what you do after you've filled the form locally. Do you then email it somewhere? What does the receiving organisation do with it? Unfortunately there are potential security pitfalls in many parts of the process.
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ldenoue 3135 days ago
Do you think PDFjs could be extended to write new text inside the PDF, all client side? At the moment I’m only aware of PDFBox from Apache to do this, but that’s server side JAVA...
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samadmin 3134 days ago
Yes PDFjs is what we are looking at for a full client side version. However we've had issues with larger pdf's/images and localstorage limits.
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