Hi
I am confused with the form in the pdf, i just create a word file and insert a
3X3 form in open office, then export to pdf format, but the output pdf can't be
read through PDFDocumentCatalog.
And i also test the example classes:
org.apache.pdfbox.examples.fdf.SetField and
org.apache.pdfbox.examples.fdf.PrintFields
the result is the same:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.pdfbox.examples.fdf.SetField.setField(SetField.java:53)
at org.apache.pdfbox.examples.fdf.SetField.setField(SetField.java:95)
at org.apache.pdfbox.examples.fdf.SetField.main(SetField.java:78)
becaue the acroForm is null
Can someone give me a test pdf file which does contain a acroform ?
thanks
At 2011-10-12 14:27:12,"Kévin Sailly" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>
>The source code from PDFDocumentCatalog is pretty simple:
>
> /** * This will get the documents acroform.
>This will return null if
> * no acroform is part of the document.
> *
> * *@return* The documents acroform.
> */
> *public* *PDAcroForm*
><http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Java-Document/PDF/PDFBox-1.4.0/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/interactive/form/PDAcroForm.java.htm>
>getAcroForm() {
> *if* (acroForm == null) {
> *COSDictionary*
><http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Java-Document/PDF/PDFBox-1.4.0/org/apache/pdfbox/cos/COSDictionary.java.htm>
>acroFormDic = (*COSDictionary*
><http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Java-Document/PDF/PDFBox-1.4.0/org/apache/pdfbox/cos/COSDictionary.java.htm>)
>root
> .getDictionaryObject(COSName.ACRO_FORM);
> *if* (acroFormDic != null) {
> acroForm = *new* *PDAcroForm*
><http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Java-Document/PDF/PDFBox-1.4.0/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/interactive/form/PDAcroForm.java.htm>(document,
>acroFormDic);
> }
> }
> *return* acroForm;
> }
>It' looks like your document does not contains an acroForm, but
>something like a form.
>
>Try look deeper in your document and parse all DictionnaryObject's from it.
>
>Regards,
>Kevin
>
>
>
>2011/10/12 eric <[email protected]>
>
>> I tried 1.6 and 1.7 both, and the problem is same, it can't read any form
>> from the test file
>>
>> PDAcroForm acroForm = catalog.getAcroForm(); //return null
>>
>> the acroForm is null but the test pdf file does have a form, can anybody
>> help me?
>>
>> post the src file and test file
>> ///////////////////////////////
>> package Pdfbox.test;
>>
>> import java.net.URL;
>>
>> import java.io.File;
>> import java.io.FileOutputStream;
>> import java.io.IOException;
>> import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
>> import java.io.Writer;
>>
>> import java.io.BufferedWriter;
>> import java.io.FileInputStream;
>> import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
>> import java.io.FileWriter;
>>
>> import java.util.Iterator;
>> import java.util.List;
>>
>> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;
>> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
>> import org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;
>>
>> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
>> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog;
>> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.f orm.PDAcroForm;
>> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField;
>>
>> import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.CryptographyException;
>> import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.InvalidPasswordException;
>>
>> public class ReadForms {
>>
>> private static final String pdfFile = "/root/test_readforms.pdf";//
>> Book1.pdf";
>>
>> public ReadForms() {
>>
>> }
>>
>> public static void processField(PDField field, String sLevel, String
>> sParent)
>> throws IOException {
>> List kids = field.getKids();
>> if (kids != null) {
>> Iterator kidsIter = kids.iterator();
>> if (!sParent.equals(field.getPartialName())) {
>> sParent = sParent + "." + field.getPartialName();
>> }
>> System.out.println(sLevel + sParent);
>> // System.out.println(sParent + " is of type " +
>> // field.getClass().getName());
>> while (kidsIter.hasNext()) {
>> Object pdfObj = kidsIter.next();
>> if (pdfObj instanceof PDField) {
>> PDField kid = (PDField) pdfObj;
>> proce ssField(kid, "| " + sLevel, sParent);
>> }
>> }
>> } else {
>> String outputString = sLevel + sParent + "."
>> + field.getPartialName() + " = " + field.getValue()
>> + ", type=" + field.getClass().getName();
>>
>> System.out.println(outputString);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> /**
>> * This will read a PDF file and print out the form elements. <br />
>> see
>> * usage() for commandline
>> &nb sp; *
>> * @param args
>> * command line arguments
>> *
>> * @throws IOException
>> * If there is an error importing the FDF document.
>> * @throws CryptographyException
>> * If there is an error decrypting the document.
>> */
>> public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException,
>> CryptographyException {
>>
>> // Create the PDF Document
>> PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(pdfFile);
>>
>> // Extract the catalog
>> PDDocumentCatalog catalog = doc.getDocumentCatalog();
>>
>> // Retrieve the AcroForm
>> PDAcroForm acroForm = catalog.getAcroForm();
>>
>> // Retrieve all fields that should be change
>> List listField = acroForm.getFields();
>> Iterator<PDField> it = listField.iterator();
>>
>> // Loop on each field
>> while (it.hasNext()) {
>> PDField field = (PDField) it.next();
>> processField(field, "|--", field.getPartialName());
>> }
>>
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
