Hi, > Am 05.02.2017 um 20:35 schrieb Dick Martin <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > I've been working with PDFBox 2.0.4 for a couple of days now. I've been > successful at merging XFDF data into a form that had been created with > Nuance PDF Converter. Next I set out to do some work with changing font > size of textboxes based on the amount of text in the textbox field. > As a > basis for that, I've tried to retrieve the textbox value using > getValueAsText after importing the XFDF data. Nothing comes back. I've > tried using acrobat to change the value of one of the fields but I still > get null in the value. I've also tried a version created with Acrobat X > Standard. > > My next step was to process the PDF file after saving the merged XFDF data > with the PDFBox sample PrintFields. The textbox values that appear in > Acrobat Reader (after adding setNeedAppearances(true)) do not appear in the > output of PrintFields either.
please upload the form (empty, filled + sample code) to a public location. I'll take a look. BR Maruan > > After a lot of Googling and learning about XFA forms, I added this line to > Printfields to see if my form was XFA. It isn't. That line returned > AcroForm > System.out.println(acroForm.hasXFA() ? "XFA form" : "AcroForm"); > > As a further thought about XFA, I used one of the IRS forms I have to see > how it behaved. PrintFields identifies it a an XFA form **and** shows the > textbox values. The form is f5504ez.pdf. > > Any ideas why PrintFields and my own use of getValueAsText isn't working as > expected on a PDF form created with Nuance PDF Converter? Have any PDFBox > users encountered the same? > > I just tried creating form in Acrobat X Standard. I populated one of its > textboxes with data and then ran it into PrintFields. The data is included > in the output. I suppose I could redo the form(s) I plan to use using > Acrobat instead of PDF Creator but the each have many, many fields so that > would be a chore. I thought I'd ask here first. > > Let me know of any details I may have omitted. > Thanks. > Dick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
