Hello all. I'm tasked with providing a service to generate PDFs from template PDFs by replacing text place holders and image place holders with data from a database. For replacing text we decided to use Form Fields to keep minimal effect on the page layout, and to avoid problems with texts being split into parts by the editor. Replacing images is also achievable using COSStream.replaceWithStream(COSStream).
Q1: The replaceWithStream method is being deprecated. What can I use to do the same thing in PDFBox 2? I tried stream-copying, but I get a "WARNING: DCTFilter#encode is not implemented yet, skipping this stream." and the image disappears from the output file. Q2: Is there any way to identify which image is what? Form fields have Mapping Name that I can use to detect which field needs to contain what, but I can not find a way to get some user-controllable identifier for an image. Any thoughts?
