Mauran, Thanks. Apparently whatever was masking it in 2.0.4 was what was making it work OK for me. I'll prepare a unit test and sample file(s); probably not until tomorrow. Do I post the files to the bug ticket? Or make them available by Dropbox or such means? Thanks. Dick
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > that's a bug in PDFBox which also exists in PDFBox 2.0.x for 2.0.4 and > earlier but was masked by another issue. I've opened PDFBOX-3723 for that. > Please comment if you don't think the description matches your issue. It > would also be good to have some sample files and a unit test with the > expected results. > > BR > Maruan > > > Am 18.03.2017 um 17:19 schrieb Dick Martin <[email protected]>: > > > > I'm using PDFBox to fill form fields with data from XFDF files using > PDFBox > > to convert XFDF to FDF. > > With 2.0.4, values are filled as expected. > > > > When trying 2.0.5, I find that fdf field values are "enclosed" like this: > > COSString{Tester, Richard (Dick)} > > > > Using the same code with 2.0.4, that same value is returned as expected > > like this: > > Tester, Richard (Dick) > > > > Is there something I should be doing differently in 2.0.5 to accommodate > > the COSString "wrapper"? Or is it a 2.0.5 issue? > > > > Here is a code snippet showing how my code iterates through the FDF > fields > > and gets the field values. I know this may be out of context. I can > > provide more detail if needed. > > > > List<?> fields = fdf.getCatalog().getFDF().getFields(); > > if( fields != null ) > > { > > String defaultAppearanceString = "/Helv 0 Tf 0 g"; > > for (Object field : fields) > > { > > FDFField fdfField = (FDFField) field; > > String fdfName, fdfValue; > > Integer fdfNameLen; > > Integer fdfValueLen; > > fdfName = fdfField.getPartialFieldName() ; > > fdfValue = String.valueOf(fdfField.getValue()); > > fdfNameLen = fdfName.length(); > > fdfValueLen = fdfValue.length(); > > > > > > Thanks. > > Dick Martin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
