> On 16 Jul 2015, at 15:28, John Hewson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 16 Jul 2015, at 11:53, jarrod <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've converted a 1.8.9 project to the latest 2.0.0 shapshot (as of
>> 20150716). This project fill's in acroForm fields and then saves to a new
>> file.
>>
>> 1. I'm having difficulty in assigning the selected value to a PDChoice
>> field. In 1.8.9, I was able to use .setValue(strValueGoesHere) as long as
>> the item already existed. When it didn't exist, i would add it first. In
>> version 2.0.0, using .setValue(strValueGoesHere) throws an exception "not
>> implemented". Then I proceeded to try using .setSelectedOptionsIndex but
>> that throws the following exception "Setting the indices is not allowed for
>> choice fields not allowing multiple selections."
>>
>> How should I be setting this PDChoice field?
>
> We don’t support generating the appearance for a choice field yet, but you
> can generate forms without appearances (as 1.8.9 does) by first calling
> setNeedAppearances(false) on the PDAcroForm.
Sorry, that should have been setNeedAppearances(true). This tells consumers of
the PDF that they will need to generate the appearances themselves, i.e. they
are not pre-generated.
— John
>
>>
>> 2. Additionally, I've noticed the runtime execution time has dramatically
>> increased when saving the document. The following lines of code only took 0
>> seconds previously and now takes 14 seconds;
>>
>> java.util.Date startTime2 = new java.util.Date();
>> pdfDocument.save(dest);
>> pdfDocument.close();
>> java.util.Date endTime2 = new java.util.Date();
>> System.out.println("Save Time: " +
>> ((endTime2.getTime()-startTime2.getTime())/1000));
>>
>
> Andreas, any thoughts?
>
>> 3. Also, I'm getting the following log entries during runtime although I'm
>> guessing they are not very important;
>>
>> Jul 16, 2015 1:43:30 PM java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences <init>
>> WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at
>> root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.
>
> That’s PDFBox trying to create a local cache of font files and failing. I’m
> not sure why, looks like the reason is Windows-specific. It might take a few
> extra seconds to load PDFBox without the cache, but it not a problem.
>
>> Jul 16, 2015 1:43:30 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font <init>
>> WARNING: Using fallback font ArialMT for base font ZapfDingbats
>
> I’m surprised that PDFBox doesn’t find a better substitute for ZapfDingbats,
> enable TRACE logging and post the log file.
>
> — John
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jarrod
>>
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