I also need the original PDF. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Patrick Lee > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] (no subject) > > Hi, > > I'm having a problem with partialFormFlattening, which > I wonder has anyone come across. I want to leave some > fields on a pdf as editable and ones that have had > data filled into them, I want to flatten. > So I've called > > stamp.setFormFlattening(true); > stamp.partialFormFlattening("ISG_RSV_TIN1"); > > on my stamper, but no fields are flattened. If I take > out the call to "partialFormFlattening" then all > fields are flattened as I would expect. > > I've traced into the PDFStamperImpl.flatFields code > and it looks like the when the stamper tries to > retrieve the PdfDictionary it's getting null. > > PdfDictionary appDic = > (PdfDictionary)PdfReader.getPdfObject(merged.get(PdfName.AP)); > > This does not happen when the call to > partialFormFlattening is omitted. > > Any help greatly appreciated, > > thanks > > -patrick > > P.S. Here's my whole code snippet. > > package com.blah; > > import java.io.File; > import java.io.FileOutputStream; > import java.util.Collection; > import java.util.HashMap; > import java.util.Iterator; > > import com.lowagie.text.pdf.AcroFields; > import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader; > import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper; > > /** > * @author dk > * > * To change the template for this generated type > comment go to > * Window>Preferences>Java>Code > Generation>Code and Comments > */ > public class PDFModifier { > > public static void main(String[] args) { > try { > File pdfDirectory = new File("c:/Documents and > Settings/DKenny/My Documents/compliance/pdfs from > ping/27Oct04/"); > File noPrintDirectory = new File(pdfDirectory, > "noprint"); > if (!noPrintDirectory.exists()) { > noPrintDirectory.mkdir(); > } > String [] files = pdfDirectory.list(); > System.out.println("Found " + files.length + " > files"); > for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { > System.out.println(files[i]); > > File noPrintFile = new > File(noPrintDirectory, > files[i]); > if (noPrintFile.exists()) { > > > System.out.println("deleting oldfile:" + > noPrintFile.delete()); > } > > File file = new > File(pdfDirectory, files[i]); > PdfReader inputPDF = new > PdfReader(file.getAbsolutePath()); > PdfStamper stamp = new > PdfStamper(inputPDF, > new > FileOutputStream(noPrintFile)); > > > //stamp.partialFormFlattening("ISG_RSV_NAME1"); > stamp.setFormFlattening(true); > boolean worked = > stamp.partialFormFlattening("ISG_RSV_TIN1"); > if (worked) { > > System.out.println("partialFormFlattening > worked"); > } > else { > > System.out.println("partialFormFlattening didn't > work"); > } > > stamp.close(); > break; // just do one for the moment. > } > } > catch (Exception e) { > System.out.println("Got a dirty big > exception - " + > e.getMessage()); > > } > } > } > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. > www.yahoo.com > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE > LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >
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