Can you send me the form? There are many types of PDF forms. Acroforms are easiest but there are FDF, XFDF and XFA as well.
Duane Nickull *********************************** Technoracle Advanced Systems Inc. Consulting and Contracting; Proven Results! i. Neo4J, PDF, Java, LiveCycle ES, Flex, AIR, CQ5 & Mobile b. http://technoracle.blogspot.com t. @duanechaos "Don't fear the Graph! Embrace Neo4J" On 2012-11-19 4:19 AM, "Milan Stojanovic" <[email protected]> wrote: >I have a PDF file with some form fields that I need to fill in from Java >code. I use PDFBox library for this, and this code: > >PDDocument pdfDoc = >PDDocument.load("C:\\Users\\igor\\Desktop\\test.pdf");PDDocumentCatalog >docCatalog = pdfDoc.getDocumentCatalog();PDAcroForm acroForm = >docCatalog.getAcroForm();PDField field = >acroForm.getField("applicationPrepaid[0].#pageSet[0].Pagina1[0].txtFirstNa >me[0]");if >(field != null) { > field.setValue("Milan");} else { > System.err.println("No field found with name:" + >"applicationPrepaid[0].#pageSet[0].Pagina1[0].txtFirstName[0]");} >pdfDoc.save("C:\\Users\\igor\\Desktop\\testout.pdf"); >pdfDoc.close(); > >The PDF is not created by me, so I don't know what type of form the file >uses (if I understand correctly, there are FDF and XFA forms). Since the >PDF is not created by me, I used this tool >http://support.persits.com/pdf/demo_formfields.asp to find out the names >of >the form fields, and it gave me this: > >applicationPrepaid[0].#pageSet[0].Pagina1[0].txtFirstName[0] > >When I use this long field name, I don't get any errors, but the resulting >PDF does not contain the value I put in the field. I thought that maybe >there was something wrong with the field name, so I used Pdftk >tool<http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/>which >gave me just txtFirstName for the field name. But when I use just that, I >get the No field found with name: txtFirstName error. Help?
