forms-data-format: Parse and serialize FDF, the Forms Data Format

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This is a hacked-together library to parse and serialize FDF, Adobe's Forms Data Format. It does not follow the specification, but seems to work for simple cases.

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0.2.0.1

Versions [RSS]	0.1, 0.2, 0.2.0.1, 0.2.1
Change log	CHANGELOG.md
Dependencies	base (>=4 && <5), bytestring (>=0.9 && <0.13), grammatical-parsers (>=0.5 && <0.8), monoid-subclasses (>=1 && <2), parsers (<0.13), rank2classes (>=1 && <1.6), text (>=1.0 && <2.2) [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Copyright	(c) 2023 Mario Blažević
Author	Mario Blažević
Maintainer	blamario@protonmail.com
Category	data, text
Bug tracker	https://github.com/blamario/forms-data-format/issues
Source repo	head: git clone https://github.com/blamario/forms-data-format
Uploaded	by MarioBlazevic at 2024-03-01T12:50:23Z
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Downloads	200 total (11 in the last 30 days)
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Status	Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2024-03-01 [all 1 reports]

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Forms Data Format

The Forms Data Format, or FDF for short, is a horrible data format thought up by Adobe. Its only redeeming feature is that in practice it's much simpler than PDF.

This Haskell package is hacked together to parse and re-serialize some files in FDF format. It certainly does not support the full range of possible FDF files. I tried to follow the specification but gave up.

The main purpose of the package is to allow parsing and serializing Canadian tax forms in FDF format. For that purpose this hack seems sufficient. If you find it doesn't work for some other FDF files, feel free to contribute some code.