Hi, > Am 24.09.2016 um 17:13 schrieb Evan Williams <[email protected]>: > > I have a problem, but I think it's non-terminal. > > I have been using PDFBox to work with forms for about a year and a half, > and I have a handle on many things, but I have a persistent and pernicious > issue with forms where fields have periods ('.') in their name.
would it be possible to upload a sample to a public location to take a look. BR Maruan > > These forms are from external sources and are typically old school > AcroForms. Because of the nature of the forms (medical), they often contain > decimal values like '0.5 mg' or 'W55.21'. These forms do not seem to have > ever been meant to be read programatically. They are for human consumption. > > As far as I can tell, '.' is a magic character used by fully qualified > names that delineates elements of the path. So when I iterate over the > fields I get a bunch of name fragments as 'PDNonTerminalField's and regular > fields. > > My current way of dealing with this is to waste the time of a skilled > graphic designer, or my own time, manually going in and fixing it. This is > mostly just an annoyance. But annoyances add up. And I am trying to > automate as much as I possibly can in dealing with these forms. > > *Is there any obvious way to identify this corrupt situation and correct it* > > I wonder if I Am just doing something wrong (I am iterating over the > fields in the time honored way that the form example that is included with > PDFBox uses). > > Adobe Acrobat seems perfectly happy to deal with fields containing periods > (including, unfortunately, allowing people to create them). So there must > be some way to deal with this. > > Your advice would be of great service to me. > > Thank you. > -- > *Evan Williams* > Sr. Software Engineer > [email protected] > > *www.ZappRx.com <http://www.zapprx.com/>* --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
