Hi,
I still try to understand what you're doing.
Do you want to set/change the value of a form-field, e.g. a variable textfield?
Or do you try to change the internal name of a form-field?
How do you check if you're successful or not?
What version of pdfbox are you using?
Andreas Lehmkühler
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Betreff: renaming a field and not able to set value to the saved PDF document
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Gesendet: Mi, 03. Jun 2009
Von: Venkatesh Prasad<venkatesh.pra...@trv.envestnet.com>
> I renamed fields in a PDF document "source.PDF" and saved the document as
> 'target.PDF". I was then not able to set values to the fields in the saved
> document 'target.PDF". I also observed reduction in the size of the saved
> PDF - source.PDF (3.34 MB) - target.PDF (911 KB).
>
> Can anyone help? The code I used to rename the fields is given below:
>
> PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument.load(pdfSource);
> try
> {
> if (pdfDocument.isEncrypted())
> {
> pdfDocument.decrypt("");
> }
> PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog();
> PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm();
> if (acroForm != null)
> {
> List pdfFields = acroForm.getFields();
> if (pdfFields != null)
> {
> PDField pdfField;
> for (int i = 0; i < pdfFields.size(); i++)
> {
> pdfField = (PDField) pdfFields.get(i);
> String fieldName = pdfField.getPartialName();
> if( fieldName.equalsIgnoreCase("Test1") ){
> String newFieldName = "acco...@name1";
> pdfField.setPartialName(newFieldName);
> }
> }
> pdfDocument.save(pdfOutput);
> } else {
> return "No Acro Form Fields found in PDF Document " + pdfSource +
> "!";
> }
> } else {
> return "PDF document " + pdfSource + " not able to access!";
> }
> } catch (Exception e) {
> return "PDF Document " + pdfSource + " is encrypted! Cannot
> process.";
> }
> pdfDocument.close();
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Venkatesh Prasad.B.K.
>
>
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