Tilman, we were trying to remove fields at the beginning. We found that the pdf was created in Adobe LifeSkills and need to know if pdfbox works with this type of pdf.
-----Original Message----- From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: how to remove a field from a PDF Am 12.09.2017 um 22:14 schrieb Baker, Ricky: > Tilman, what we are having issue with is running a pdf created in adobe > livecycle. We can set the values for field(s) that are used to calculate > another field, but the calculated field does not populate. We are not > flattening it. I thought you wanted to remove a field? Fields that are the results of other fields are likely a result of javascript operations. You would have to do this yourself. PDFBox does not have a javascript engine. Tilman > > Ricky > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2017 6:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: how to remove a field from a PDF > > Am 06.09.2017 um 19:31 schrieb Baker, Ricky: >> I need to know how to remove a field from a PDF. I am using pdfbox >> 2.0.5 > Current version is 2.0.7, but there is no such feature. It would be > tricky: one would have to remove the field from the field tree without > harming the existing field structure, and also remove all the widgets from > all pages. > > Better do it with Adobe Acrobat. > > If it is one file only, send it to me (tilman at snafu dot de), I'll do it > carefully with NOTEPAD++. > > Tilman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
