Hello Claudius and thanks a ton for your answer!
I found the solution in your first example, the problem was the way I
declared my PdfStamper.
I changed this row:
Dim stamper As New PdfStamper(reader, New FileStream(sOutputFile,
FileMode.Append))
to this:
Dim stamper As New PdfStamper(reader, New FileStream(sOutputFile,
FileMode.Open), Chr(0), True)
and now it works perfectly!
I hope you find the answers you need as well, I'm not that into XML so I'm
afraid I'm not much help there.
Thanks again! / Fredrik
2009/10/27 claud108 <claud...@yahoo.com>
>
> Hi, Fredrik,
>
>
> The example http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=example&id=348will
> save you, as it can be used to prefill a PDF and preserve the usage rights
> (namely, further filling and saving by the user).
>
> But you have to pay attention to address the fields to set values to.
>
> I used the example http://1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=example&id=440to
> get the XFA of the PDF file, after I examined the datasets element and
> adrressed the desired element by using the the its parent axis starting
> below data child element of datasets element.
>
> Now I am looking for a method to lookup within the datasets element and
> automatically generate a Java array containing (field name (appropriately
> addressed as above), value). I don't know Java, so that I will try to force
> a XSLT transformation of the datasets element pushed out the PDF file, in
> order to obtain this array.
>
> The most adequate and elegant way to solve this is by using XFA of the PDF
> file. I managed to replace the XFA with but the usage rights aren't
> preserved (I've got an answer on this ML that this is possible, but with
> some work; I would gladly do it, but I don't know Java). This way is simple
> elegant.
>
> When I will solve the lookup, I will tell you.
>
> Good luck,
> Claudius
>
>
> Hogler wrote:
> >
> > Hi! Working on a project using itextsharp and vb.net where I want to
> > produce
> > a partially filled out PDF with editable forms and the option to sign
> with
> > a
> > digital signature. I had it working just fine until last week when I
> > started
> > getting an error when trying to save the final document in Adobe Reader.
> > The
> > message says: "The document could not be saved. There was a problem
> > reading
> > this document (26). " I have a template PDF with forms and extended
> > features
> > enabled which I want to make an editable copy of with some of the forms
> > filled out with data from database. The idea is to be able to take the
> > pre-filled document out on a laptop to be filled out completely and
> signed
> > offline. The problem seems to occur as soon as I open the document with
> > PdfStamper, set the value of a field and then close the document, using
> > the
> > code below. I even tried it with a blank PDF with just one field called
> > "test" and still get the same error. ' -- Dim reader As PdfReader = New
> > PdfReader(sDocTemplate) Dim stamper As New PdfStamper(reader, New
> > FileStream(sOutputFile, FileMode.Append))
> > stamper.AcroFields.SetField("test", "hello") stamper.Close() ' -- When I
> > open the produced PDF there is a small window saying something about the
> > document being damaged and repaired, then it opens and everything seems
> > fine. The forms contain the proper data and everything, but when trying
> to
> > save it the mentioned error message is displayed. As I said, it was
> > working
> > fine right up until this error appeared out of the blue. I haven't
> updated
> > any relevant software that I know of and I think I've eliminated all
> > sources
> > of error right down to itextsharp when testing with a blank pdf. Any
> ideas
> > of what could be wrong would be highly appreciated! / Fredrik
> >
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