Mr. Andreas, >> Only to be sure, changing values in 'Source_Original.PDF' works with the >> same code you use to manipulate 'Source_Target.PDF'??
Yes. Thanks & Regards Venkatesh Prasad.B.K. ________________________________ From: Andreas Lehmkühler [mailto:andr...@lehmi.de] Sent: Fri 6/5/2009 12:41 PM To: pdfbox-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: RE: renaming a field and not able to set value to the saved PDF document ... > Thanks for responding to my mail. I am using PDFBox-0.7.3 version. I will > explain what I want to do. > > 1. I have a PDF Document with Fields and let us call this > 'Source_Original.PDF'. The field names in this PDF document have to be > renamed and stored as 'Source_Target.PDF'. I then have to set/change the > values of form-fields in 'Source_Target.PDF'. > > The issue I am facing is given below: > > 1. I renamed the form fields in 'Source_Original.PDF" using the code given > in my earlier mail (below) and saved it as 'Source_Target.PDF'. > 2. I checked the form fields in 'Source_Target.PDF" and form-fields were > renamed correctly. > 3. However when I tried to set/change values of form-fields in > 'Source_Target.PDF' using PDFBox code, I was not able to do so. > > I used iText to set/change values of form-fields in 'Source_Target.PDF' and > was successful. But we want to use only PDFBox. > > To summarize - We are not able to set/change values of form fields of a PDF > Document whose form-fields have been renamed. There is no issue if the > form-fields are renamed manually using Adobe Acrobat 9. The issue is only > when the form-fields are renamed using PDFBox option - > setPartialName(newFieldName); Only to be sure, changing values in 'Source_Original.PDF' works with the same code you use to manipulate 'Source_Target.PDF'?? Andreas Lehmkühler
