Hello and thank you for the quite response. Here is a summary for the issue
for the next searcher:
PDF with many many field groups that have the wrong states. I would like to
update the states with my text editor for via Gnu/Linux command line. pdftk
is an easy to use tool that uses iText.
pdftk has dump_data and update_data that allows a users to export the
metadata, modify the text file, then update the metadata from the text file.
pdftk also has dump_data_fields that your can get a nicely formated list of
all the fields and their properties. But there is not a corresponding
update_data_fields. It would be easy to modify the text file and keep the
correct structure.
I was thinking the lack for a update_data_fields corresponded with
a similar limitation in iText. Seems to be the case.
However if you want "to manipulate [a PDF] in [your] text editor", that
> wouldn't be wise.
Right, I have the same concern about modifying the PDF. But not of modifying
a nicely formated dump of the data fields.
RUPS[1] seems to be the answer. But since updating is not possible I guess
Ill spend the next few years of my life updating all the
field individually via Acrobat :D
thanks again for the quick answer, even if its not the one i was hopping
for.
br, tom
[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextrups/
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