Hi Leonard, The forms are all created with Acrobat 8 and 9 Pro. Taking measures to preserve case sensitivity with the form field names is the solution to the problem I had. It works fine as long as the you keep case consistent.
Thanks! Leonard Rosenthol-3 wrote: > > Is the form you are working with an AcroForm or an XFA form? > > Leonard > > -----Original Message----- > From: transact [mailto:merr...@transact.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:21 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [iText-questions] Problem Renaming Fields with iText and > ColdFusion 9 > > > I am working on a tool that will allow users to rename form fields by > pulling > the current form fields out of the PDF and then displaying an HTML form > containing the old name and a text input for the new name. When the form > is > submitted, I loop through the form fields and rename each form field that > has a new name. > > This is working fine if the existing field name is a number and I change > it > to another number but it fails if the field name contains text. For > example, "1" would easliy be renamed to "11" but "field1" cannot be > renamed > to "field11". The fact that the field name contains text is causing the > renameField method to return false. > > If anyone has any ideas on what to try, I would appreciate it. Here is > the > code I'm using: > > <cfset pdfReader = createObject("java", "com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader") > /> > <cfset outputStream = createObject("java", "java.io.FileOutputStream") /> > <cfset pdfStamper = createObject("java", > "com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper") > /> > <cfset pdfWriter = createObject("java", "com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter") > /> > > <cfset pdfReader.init(fullPathToInputFile) /> > <cfset outputStream.init(fullPathToOutputFile) /> > <cfset pdfStamper.init(pdfReader, outputStream) /> > > <cfset thisForm = pdfStamper.getAcroFields() /> > <cfset strFormFields = thisForm.getFields() /> > > <cfset original_field = JavaCast("string", arguments.oldFieldName) /> > <cfset new_field = JavaCast("string", arguments.newFieldName) /> > > <cfif original_field neq new_field> > <cfset renameresult = thisForm.renameField(original_field, temp_field) > /> > <cfset renameresult = thisForm.renameField(temp_field, new_field) /> > </cfif> > > <cfset pdfStamper.close() /> > <cfset outputStream.close() /> > > THANK YOU! > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Problem-Renaming-Fields-with-iText-and-ColdFusion-9-tp26618805p26618805.html > Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, > a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. > Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: > http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, > a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. > Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: > http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Problem-Renaming-Fields-with-iText-and-ColdFusion-9-tp26618805p26636153.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
