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Maruan Sahyoun edited comment on PDFBOX-3586 at 10/30/20, 9:42 AM:
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PDFBOX-4985 provides a way to create a fixup for this issue. We won't handle it
directly as Acrobat/Reader also won't create a AcroForm entry for that. So in
order to get an AcroForm generated for that a fixup is the correct approach.
The sample PDF also has more issues. E.g. the font color for the "field"
content is white. So entering text in Adobe Reader/Acrobat doesn't show it
afterwards (although it's contained)
was (Author: msahyoun):
PDFBOX-4985 provides a way to create a fixup for this issue. We won't handle it
directly as Acrobat/Reader also won't create a AcroForm entry for that. So in
order to get an AcroForm generated for that a fixup is the correct approach.
> Unable to detect form - pdCatalog.getAcroForm() return null
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-3586
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3586
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: AcroForm
> Affects Versions: 2.0.3
> Environment: Latest macOS Sierra 10.12.1. Java 1.8.0_73
> Reporter: steve neo
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: w8ben-acrobat.pdf, w8ben.pdf
>
>
> I have a PDF document which has form. I can type either from browser, Adobe
> reader, they all have an editable form. But when I use getAcroForm(), it
> return null. The PDF
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3Uah3i8yt9qTUVldFVWeTFob2c/view?usp=sharing
> {code}
> PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(input);
> PDDocumentCatalog pdCatalog = document.getDocumentCatalog();
> PDAcroForm formPdf = pdCatalog.getAcroForm(); // here return null
> if (formPdf != null) {
> formPdf.flatten();
> }
> {code}
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