Greetings,

I am trying this:

`#!/usr/bin/python

2017-03-29 09:00:22 pflint

SOURCE: https://github.com/ccnmtl/fdfgen

from fdfgen import forge_fdf
fields = [
('topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].HeaderPg1[0].f1_01[0]','January'),
('topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].HeaderPg1[0].f1_02[0]','December'),
('topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].HeaderPg1[0].f1_03[0]','16'),
('topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].f1_04[0]','Paul'),
('topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].f1_05[0]','Flint')
]
fdf = forge_fdf("",fields,[],[],[])
fdf_file = open("data.fdf","wb")
fdf_file.write(fdf)
fdf_file.close()

pdftk f1040.pdf fill_form data.fdf output output.pdf flatten

`

I need to put comments into every entry...

Regards,

flintiii

I created two issues, which displayed nicely.
Since I provided the solution, I closed them.
They disappearred from the issue list.
Clicking on the closed issues tab did not bring them back.
I hacked the get url parameters to:
https://github.com/codehero/OpenTaxFormFiller/issues?state=closed
This brought them back, where upon I reopened them, and they still didn't appear.
Finally I hacked the get URL again to make them reappear:
https://github.com/codehero/OpenTaxFormFiller/issues?state=opened
Until I understand this better, I won't be closing any issues.

Node.js is in Unstable (aka Sid) on Debian. I was running Stable.
I added to my /etc/apt/sources.lis the following line:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main
Then I used aptitude to install:
sudo aptitude install nodejs/sid
I rejected the first proposed solution which was full of uninstalls, and selected the second which was full of installs. There were a lot of changes including updating libc6, which required many more unrelated upgrades.

After I file my federal forms, I take a look at this.

I entered:
node ./script/json_ots.js OpenTaxSolver/examples_and_templates/US_1040/US_1040_example.txt > US_1040_example.json
where OpenTaxSolver is a soft link to the OpenTaxSolver installation directory.
US_1040_example.json contains only:
{}
I'll look around for any other examples to try.

Needed upgrade of pdftk from version 1.41 to version 1.44.
For Debian see issue #1 for installation from unstable.

Open Tax Solver utility only processes lines starting with 'L'. It would be useful to also handle lines starting with A and D for forms A and D that also appear in the ots 1040.out file. Perhaps add another optional parameter that defaults to L.