RE: Reg. pdf editing and saving

[Ravi Chilakapati]

Hi. I was able to solve this using the code below:

List fieldsToSet = new ArrayList();
PDDocument pdfDoc = PDDocument.load("somepath");
Iterator fields = 
pdfDoc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm().getFields().iterator();
while(fields.hasNext){
                PDField field = fields.next();
                String someValue = aFunction(field.getAlternateFieldName());
                field.setValue(someValue);
                fieldsToSet.add(field);
}
pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm().setFields(fieldsToSet);
pdfDocument.save("someotherpath");

Regards,
Ravi.

From: Ravi Chilakapati
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 4:33 PM
To: 'users@pdfbox.apache.org'
Subject: Reg. pdf editing and saving

Hello!
I have recently started using PDFBox and am stuck with one issue.
We have a template that needs to be populated partially.

We are doing something very close the code below:

PDDocument pdfDoc = PDDocument.load("somepath");
Iterator fields = 
pdfDoc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm().getFields().iterator();
while(fields.hasNext){
                PDField field = fields.next();
                String someValue = aFunction(field.getAlternateFieldName());
                field.setValue(someValue);
}
pdfDocument.save("someotherpath");

The code is being compiled and I am able to run it. But when I open the output 
pdf file with Adobe Reader 9.3, I am unable to see the populated values. 
However, the size of the output field is greater than the size of the input pdf 
file.

I have also written a separate utility where I am opening the output file and 
printing the values of all the fields. And I am able to see the values that I 
set. They are showing up!

How can I resolve this strange error? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks and Regards,
Ravi.