Hi,
hope you can help me fixing the following unreasonable behavior: situation: my code uses a pdf file with embedded text, images and forms as a template everything works the code searches the pdf for forms on different pages and the forms are filled as defined even pages with a form and image painting work, the forms prepared to overwritten by an image show the new image the problem: when I paint an image on a pdfpage where a image already exists in the template pdf the image from the template get’s invisible I checked the coordinates of the the painting – ok the new image is on the right position the relevant code: for (String imagename : this.templateimages.keySet()) { PDField field2 = (PDTextField) acroForm.getField(imagename); if (field2 != null) { field2.setValue(" "); field2.setReadOnly(true); COSDictionary fieldDict = field2.getCOSObject(); COSArray fieldAreaArray = (COSArray) fieldDict.getDictionaryObject(COSName.RECT); PDRectangle result = new PDRectangle(fieldAreaArray); int fieldpagenumber = getFormPagenr(field2); if (fieldpagenumber >= 0 && result != null) { PDPage page = doc.getPage(fieldpagenumber); FileObject file = this.templateimages.get(imagename); if (file != null && file.exists() == true) { InputStream is = file.getContent().getInputStream(); BufferedImage awtImage = ImageIO.read( is ); PDImageXObject pdImage = LosslessFactory.createFromImage(doc, awtImage); PDPageContentStream contents = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page); log.info("drawimage x={} y={} w={} h={}",result.getLowerLeftX(), result.getLowerLeftY(), result.getWidth(), result.getHeight()); contents.drawImage(pdImage, result.getLowerLeftX(), result.getLowerLeftY(), result.getWidth(), result.getHeight()); contents.close(); } else { log.error("problem at pdf generate pdimage file=null or file does not exist {}" + ((file != null) ? file.getPublicURIString() : "")); throw new Exception("file not found "+file); } } else { log.error("probelm at pdf generate pagenumber<0 or result=null"); throw new Exception("template has no pages"); } } else { throw new Exception("field for image " + imagename + " not found"); } } Version: (in 2.0.1 it was the same) <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox --> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId> <artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId> <version>2.0.16</version> </dependency> Please Help! Martin