Don't use PRAcroForm, ever. Use AcroFields. Only in 1.4.4 were XFA forms supported.
Paulo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 10:51 PM Subject: [iText-questions] PRAcroForm.FieldInformation Names in newerversions of PDF > > Hello all, > > We've recently tried using a newer government form in our Web Application, > and it seems that iText is returning some weirdly formatted names when we > retrieve the fieldname from the FieldInformation object using the > getName() > method. Right now we have a couple of issues: > a) The field names before were "fieldName" now we are getting > "F[0].P[0].fieldName[0]" > b) The string returned is sorta-kinda like UTF-16, but it cannot be parsed > properly as such because the period character is not a correct UTF-16 > character. If you get the field name and then do .getBytes() you can > clearly > see that it is not correct: [... , 0, 48, 0, 93, 46, ... ] ~= "0].", the > 46 > should have an extra leading empty byte. > c) iText is also inserting zero length non breaking spaces (\uFEFF) > characters at strange places, namely at the beginning of the string and > after each period. > > Please not that when I say "iText" I mean it very liberally and only > because > I don't know who else to blame... we <3 iText, we really do. > > It might be that we are using an old version (1.4.3), but I don't see how > that could be related (I've tried looking through source code changes). > Optimally, we would not like to upgrade to a new version since the code > is > already in production and we only need to support one new form. Right now > we > are dealing with these issues manually, but my guess is that there is > something clearly amiss. > > Thank you, > David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
