For Adobe Reader you need to supply a PDF als the response content. Adobe
Acrobat also supports other response formats auch aus HTML.
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Maruan Sahyoun
> Am 21.01.2016 um 14:08 schrieb clovis <clovis.har...@gmail.com>:
>
> Sorry, I've just tested again and it is working now. Actualy it was already.
> The test PDF I created with Acrobat Pro has an invalid URL and Acrobat
> Reader shows a message immediatly after you click the button.
> The PDF I've created with PDFBOX has a valid URL and Acrobat doesn't show
> any feedback until some time, I have closed it before that time and I
> thought it was wrong.
> I set up a web page on that URL and it now opens a web browser with the
> resulting page.
> Now I have an unforeseen problem.
> How to make Acrobat Reader to handle the response? Or which is the best
> aproach (from user perspective) if the behavior is to always save the
> response in a temp folder and open it in the default browser?
>
> Clóvis
>
>
> 2016-01-21 10:50 GMT-02:00 Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The screenshot didn't get through. Please upload it somewhere, also the
>> PDF you created with Adobe. Please do also post your current code in full.
>>
>> Tilman
>>
>>> Am 21.01.2016 um 13:27 schrieb clovis:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Now that my Push Button is visible.
>>> I want to submit PDF or PDF form data to a server (unless someone knows
>>> how to extract pdf form data just filled in a PDF embedded in an HTML page
>>> using acrobat reader).
>>>
>>> First I tried to use PDActionSubmitForm, but there is no
>>> PDPushButton.setAction method similar to the "PDAnnotationLink.setAction".
>>> And using AA does not worked.
>>>
>>> // PDActionSubmitForm pdactionsubmit = new PDActionSubmitForm();
>>> // pdactionsubmit.setFlags(256);
>>> // actions.setF(pdactionsubmit);
>>> // pb.setActions(actions);
>>>
>>>
>>> Then I tried to insert the Action direct in the COSDictionary.
>>>
>>> I have tried to mimic a sample form I have made with Acrobat Pro XI but
>>> still does not submit.
>>>
>>> Using PDFDebugger I can see the following tree (PDF generated with
>>> Acrobat Pro, and my PDF on the right):
>>>
>>> Imagem inline 1
>>>
>>> I have just added the A node and annotation flags to the push button:
>>>
>>> PDPushButton pb = new PDPushButton(acroForm);
>>> pb.setPartialName("sbtn");
>>> COSDictionary cosPush = pb.getCOSObject();
>>> COSDictionary cosA = new COSDictionary();
>>> cosPush.setInt(COSName.F, 4);
>>> cosPush.setItem(COSName.A, cosA);
>>> cosPush.setItem(COSName.P, page);
>>> cosA.setInt(COSName.FLAGS, 256);
>>> cosA.setName(COSName.S, "SubmitForm");
>>> COSDictionary cosF = new COSDictionary();
>>> cosA.setItem(COSName.F, cosF);
>>> cosF.setString(COSName.F, "http://localhost:8080/docpres";);
>>> cosF.setName("FS", "URL");
>>> // add the field to the acroform
>>> acroForm.getFields().add(pb);
>>>
>>>
>>> What else I need to do to make this button submit the form?
>>>
>>> Clóvis
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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