Actually, that stopped working with Acrobat 8... Leonard
On Nov 10, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Paulo Soares wrote: > In Acrobat 9 dynamic forms don't create the acro form fields needed > to work with iText. It may work today with older versions but it > won't work tomorrow. > > ________________________________________ > From: darrenmia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 12:19 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Re ader Enable issue with dynamic > XfaForms. > > Hi Paulo, > > If Itext do not support Dynamic Forms, how come I am able to merge > the datas > to pdf when I use > PdfStamper destStamp= new PdfStamper( destReader, new > FileOutputStream(DEST2) , '\0'); without the append flag.? > > I am not sure if mine are a dynamic form, i save it as a dynamic > form,but > there are no creation of field by the click of a button of sort. > > Thanks. > > brgds, > Darren > > Paulo Soares-3 wrote: >> >> There's no support for dynamic forms. >> >> Paulo >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: darrenmia [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 3:19 AM >> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [iText-questions] Re ader Enable issue with dynamic >> XfaForms. >> >> Hi All, >> >> I have a Dynamic Xfa form created using Adbove Livecycle 8 and has >> reader >> enabled it using Acrobat Pro and recently purchased the reader >> extension. >> The forms is distributed to my customers and has saved multiple >> copies >> with >> datas onto their PC. Now I have a newer version with bug fixes that >> needs >> to >> be redistributed. I need to write a migration tool to migrate all the >> datas >> from the previous version to a new one. >> >> I've read the following post >> http://www.nabble.com/enabled_form_prefilled.pdf-(from-FAQ)-breaks-after-one-save-td18219122.html#a20358214 >> >> Further checking on the Post by Bruno on the July 05 2008 that the >> problem >> will be fixed on the next release. IText version 2.1.3 was released >> on >> July >> 12, 2008. So I suppose the reader enabled issue was fixed. >> ItextInfo also >> mention that the next release is scheduled on Nov 11 2008. >> >> Here is my code that does the migration >> >> PdfReader srcReader = new PdfReader(SOURCE, new >> String("password").getBytes() ); >> PdfReader destReader = new PdfReader(DESTINATION, new >> String("password").getBytes() ); >> PdfStamper destStamp= new PdfStamper( destReader, new >> FileOutputStream(DEST2) , '\0',true); >> >> XfaForm xfaSrcForm = new XfaForm(srcReader); >> Node n = xfaSrcForm.getDatasetsNode(); >> Xml2SomDatasets som = new Xml2SomDatasets(n); //get the data node >> >> Node n1 = >> (Node)som.getName2Node().get("data[0].Request[0].Address1[0]"); >> xfaSrcForm.setNodeText(n1,"test Replace"); >> >> xfaSrcForm.setChanged(true); >> XfaForm >> .setXfa(xfaSrcForm,destStamp.getReader(),destStamp.getWriter()); >> destStamp.close(); >> srcReader.close(); >> >> There are 2 outcomes depending on the Stamper initailization >> If I use PdfStamper destStamp= new PdfStamper( destReader, new >> FileOutputStream(DEST2) , '\0'); >> the data successfully migrated by reader enabled that was on the >> DESTINATION >> is gone with the dreaded message "the document has changed since it >> was >> created and these rights >> are no longer valid". Output filesize 153Kb >> >> If I use PdfStamper destStamp= new PdfStamper( destReader, new >> FileOutputStream(DEST2) , '\0', true); >> The reader enablement is retained, but I do not see my fields >> migrated. >> Output filesize 481 KB. >> >> How do I retain the reader enable feature and with the datas >> migrated? >> >> Could the append function of the Stamper appended the XFA, and the >> old XFA >> is still there, thus I could not see the newly appended XFA? >> >> Will the new IText 2.1.4 solve this issue? I already have a backup >> plan >> that >> will work by combining java and folder level scripting, but I would >> like >> to >> do everything with IText. >> >> brgds, >> Darren > > Aviso Legal: > Esta mensagem é destinada exclusivamente ao destinatário. Pode > conter informação confidencial ou legalmente protegida. A incorrecta > transmissão desta mensagem não significa a perca de > confidencialidade. 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