When I populate acrobat form fields by importing an FDF file into NitroPDF, things look fine. When I type data into the form fields manually in Acrobat 8, things look fine. When I use pdftk (on Windows XP or 2K), the tops of the characters in each form field are chopped off. Is there a parameter I'm missing somewhere? There aren't that many settings in pdftk...
Here's what I'm running:
pdftk form.pdf fill_form data.fdf output out.pdf flatten
Digging deeper, it appears supplied text:
<</T (A) /V (123)>>
Gets reworked to:
<</T (A) /V ([fe][ff][nul]1[nul]2[nul]3)>>
(I determined this by loading an "un-flattened" out.pdf into NitroPDF and exporting the FDF).