Here's how I understand it--and I might well be wrong. I'm just a user. The document has pages. The document has a form.
When you clone the first page into your working document, that page is not part of the form that came with the original and which remains unchanged. You probably could make a new (output) document and put a new doc catalog and a new form on it. If it were me (and I'm by nature incredibly lazy) I'd use Adobe or MasterPDF to save the first page as a jpg, then make a whole new doc with that jpg as a template/background, add a whole new set of fields on top of it (several times), make sure every field was named uniquely ... and start my processing with that. -- Richard Johnson On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 03:04:03 PM [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > unfortunately, once I have imported several copies of the source PDF form page into the destination PDF, PDDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm() returns null. > > > > ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Maruan Sahyoun" <[email protected]> > À: [email protected] > Envoyé: Mardi 21 Avril 2015 14:53:48 > Objet: Re: Filling out PDPage forms > > Hi, > > > Am 21.04.2015 um 12:35 schrieb [email protected]: > > > > > > The source PDF contains a form which I need to make multiple copies of, in the destination PDF. > > > > I have adapted code found on Stack Overflow to retrieve the source PDF's first page: > > > > PDPage firstPage = (PDPage) templatePDDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(0); > > ... > > > > and then to import it into the destination PDF: > > > > PDPage clonedPDPage = clonedDocument.importPage(firstPage); > > ... > > > > The destination PDF now contains several copies of the form. > > > > I now need to fill out the forms with data from a CSV file. > > > > How do I retrieve each page's form field, given that there's no PDPage.getAcroForm() function? > > AcroForms are not page related as a field can appear on multiple pages. You need to use doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm() to retrieve the form. > > > BR > Maruan > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Philippe > > > > > > ----- Mail original ----- > > De: [email protected] > > À: [email protected] > > Envoyé: Mardi 21 Avril 2015 11:32:27 > > Objet: Copying PDPages > > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to copy several times the first page of a PDF document to another. > > > > What is the best way to do this? > > > > Many thanks. > > > > Philippe > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
