Hi, > Am 29.04.2015 um 02:21 schrieb Happy Human <[email protected]>: > > Hello, > > Wondering if anyone can give some insight into the following issue. When > setting field values either with ImportXFDF, ImportFDF or a simple > field.setValue("foo") some fields do not display when the PDF is opened. > > This seems to only happen when the fields font is set to "auto." The issue > apparently being there is no appearance for the form field yet. However, > some fields do render properly and I'm not sure why that is.
there were some changes in 1.8 to handle the creation of appearance streams so there might be a specific issue with your form which is currently not being handled correctly. Could you upload a sample form to a public location to take a look? > > Also, setting the NeedsAppearances flag to true on the AcroForm dictionary > does force the viewer to render the fields properly. However, I'm also > attempting to "flatten" the PDF by removing the fields and appending the > normal appearance stream for the removed field to the document. > > I'm using PDFBox 1.8.9. > > Is it possible to create appearance streams for these fields or is there an > alternative approach? You can of course generate the appearance stream yourself but as written above that should already be handled by PDFBox. BR Maruan > > Thank you, > -Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
