I'll let Bruno and Paulo comment on the specific names of the APIs -
but there exist in iText a set of APIs that do form filling on XFA-
based PDFs instead of on AcroForm-based PDFs.
Leonard
On Nov 10, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Samuel B. Quiring wrote:
Sorry for my ignorance, but what do you mean by the phrase "XFA-
native APIs"? Since you use the plural, can you list two such APIs?
-Sam
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From: Leonard Rosenthol
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Pdf 1.7 and merging XFA data
Acrobat 8.1 (and equivalent version of LiveCycle Designer) NO
LONGER SUPPORTS the "mirroring" of XFA fields into AcroFields in
dynamic documents - which is why you can no longer use the method
you've chosen on dynamic documents.
You need to switch to using the XFA-native APIs.
Leonard
On Nov 10, 2007, at 12:23 AM, Scott Dunbar wrote:
Paulo,
Thanks for your help. Rather than clog the mailboxes of every
iText mailing list user I put a sample at http://www.xigole.com/
scott/itext/pdf1.7issue.zip to download (1.4Mb). This file
contains roughly the source I'm using and shows that only Acrobat
8 dynamic files have a problem but Acrobat 7 static and dynamic
and Acrobat 8 static work.
The file contains a sample XDP (my "source" data), 4 PDF's (7 and
8 static and dynamic), the source code (single Java file) and a
build file. Once built run either the batch or shell script to
generate 4 different PDF's from the source PDF's. If there is
anything I can do to assist this effort I would be happy to do
so. I am reading the generated PDF with Adobe Acrobat 8.1.1
Professional.
Thanks again for any help.
Paulo Soares wrote:
I don't have Acrobat 8, so I can't know what's going on there.
Plaese
post your pdf in version 7 and version 8 so that I can see the
differences.
Paulo
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Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 5:49 PM
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Subject: [iText-questions] Pdf 1.7 and merging XFA data
Hello,
I've got a version 1.7 PDF that I'm trying to get the
AcroFields out of,
merge XFA data into it, and save it. If I save the PDF as an
Acrobat 7
(static or dynamic) PDF in LiveCycle Designer 8.0 I can merge
fine. If
I save it as an Acrobat 8 PDF the result from
PdfStamper.getAcroFields()
seems to be empty and my resulting PDF does not have the any of the
fields filled in.
Is this an existing limitation of iText and PDF version 1.7 or
should
the code look different? Thanks very much for any help.
The code:
// inputDataElement is the xfa:data element from an existing XDP
file
PdfReader inputReader = new PdfReader( "input.pdf" );
File tempPdfFile = File.createTempFile( "sd", ".pdf" );
FileOutputStream tempPdfOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(
tempPdfFile );
PdfStamper pdfStamper = new PdfStamper( inputReader,
tempPdfOutputStream );
AcroFields fields = pdfStamper.getAcroFields();
fields.mergeXfaData( inputDataElement );
pdfStamper.close();
tempPdfOutputStream.close();
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