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> > This is highly confusing. Why can Acrobat deal with those checkboxes when > their value is null and why can't PDFBox set Checkbox values? > > How can I simply clone all static PDF form entries of a PDF into a new PDF? > Is PDF really that complex that such a simple thing is not possible? Right > now, only text form entries are copied, the rest shows null for getValue(). the reason that getValue() returns null is that there is no value entry set for the filled out form field (this is held in the field dictionaries /V entry). But isChecked() returns true as the checkbox has been checked. This is bases on the appearance state of the checkbox. To give you a quick explanation of that. When a form field is filled out the value of the form field has to be filled. But that won't give you any visual information. To add the visual information the form field has a annotation assigned to it which will have whats's called an appearance. The appearance is what's visible on screen or when the pdf is being printed. Normally an application set the value AND the appearance when the form field is filled. In you case the form filling application hasn't set the field value (that's why getValue() return null) and ONLY updated the appearance. So to transfer the value from you original form to the new template you have to a) see if getValue() return anything but null. If that is the case use setValue() with the value provided by getValue() to fill out the corresponding field in your template b) if getValue() is null check using isChecked() if the checkbox has been checked. If this is the case use check() to check the checkbox We have done some changes to how checkboxes and radio buttons are handled in PDFBox 2.0 within the last dates (to make it easier to work with them) so please use the latests snapshot version of PDFBox. There will be an issue with the test template when you set the Name and Prename field as the field definition is incomplete (the font resource is missing) which will lead to an exception java.io.IOException: Could not find font: /Courier The easiest would be to correct the template. If that's not possible we could help you building a short workaround. But as the template you provided was only a quick mock up and not the real one the final template might not have the issue. If you need further assistance please let us know. BR Maruan > > Cheers > Roberto --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
