Hi, PDFieldTreeNode and PDTextField are for PDFBox 2.0
for 1.8 use PDField and PDTextbox instead [http://pdfbox.apache.org/docs/1.8.8/javadocs/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/interactive/form/package-summary.html] BR Maruan Am 09.01.2015 um 17:04 schrieb Lorena Leishman <[email protected]>: > Hello I installed pdfbox-app-1.8.8.jar and I have been able to run any > example codes successfully. I am working on this one and I get "cannot find > symbol" on import > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDFieldTreeNode;import > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField; > > Are these classes in a different jar? > Code: > package org.apache.pdfbox.examples.acroforms;import java.io.File;import > java.io.IOException; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDFieldTreeNode; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField; > > > public class FillTestField { public static void main(String[] args) throws > IOException { String formTemplate = "Users/Dad/Desktop/TCRM/game plan > 12-16.pdf"; String filledForm = "Users/Dad/JavaTest/game plan > 12-16.pdf"; // load the document PDDocument > pdfDocument = PDDocument .load(new File(formTemplate),null); > // get the document catalog PDAcroForm acroForm = > pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm(); // as there might > not be an AcroForm entry a null check is necessary if (acroForm != > null) { // Retrieve an individual field and set it's value. > PDTextField field = (PDTextField) acroForm.getField( "Goal" ); > field.setValue("Testing"); // If a field is > nested within the form tree a fully qualified name // might be > provided to access the field. field = (PDTextField) > acroForm.getField( "fieldsContainer.nestedSampleField" ); > field.setValue("Text Entry"); } > // Save and close the filled out form. pdfDocument.save(filledForm); > pdfDocument.close(); }} > >
