This returns null:
pdfReader().getCatalog().getAsDict(PdfName.ACROFORM)
Yet the PDF contains form fields when I open it in Adobe Reader or
Nitro. Notably though, in Adobe Reader it doesn't have the usual message
at the top indicating that it's a form to be filled out - "Please fill
out the following form....". Is that a clue to what's going on here?
Thanks
Andy
On 16/09/2011 18:13, Mark Storer wrote:
>> The PDF returned from the client as
>> PdfStamper.getAcroFields().getFields() returns 0 fields so I
>> can't readily loop over the fields to do that.
> It sounds like the form is already flattened.
>
> To be sure, you can check for an /AcroFields dictionary within the
> root/catalog:
>
> pdfReader.getCatalog().getAsDict(PdfName.ACROFIELDS) != null
>
>
> OTOH, flattening might remove the fields list but leave the acrofields
> dictionary as an empty shell, so the above test might not work. You
> should be able to toString() the acrofields dictionary and see what's
> there then write code to deal with whatever is/isn't there.
>
> --Mark Storer
> Senior Software Engineer
> Cardiff.com
>
> import legalese.Disclaimer;
> Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null;
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