Hi,

tried the download but that doesn't work for me (free download).

BR
Maruan

Am Donnerstag, dem 02.02.2023 um 20:40 +0200 schrieb Jurgen Doll:
> Hi
> 
> Files can be found here  https://ufile.io/f/svrzb
> 
> > what happens when you remove the line pdForm.setNeedAppearances(
> > true );  
> > or set to false?
> 
> This doesn't change the PDFBox rendering, but does change Acrobat and
> Edge  
> where the third field value isn't displayed until clicked.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:19:38 +0200, sahy...@fileaffairs.de  
> <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > what happens when you remove the line pdForm.setNeedAppearances(
> > true
> > ); or set to false?
> > 
> > The attachments didn't make it to the mailing list - can you upload
> > these to a shared location?
> > 
> > BR
> > Maruan
> > 
> > Am Donnerstag, dem 02.02.2023 um 19:30 +0200 schrieb Jurgen Doll:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I have PDF forms which when opened and rendered as an image with
> > > PDFBox don't display the contents/values of all the populated
> > > fields.  However the same PDF files render all fields correctly
> > > in
> > > Acrobat and Edge. Specifically it seem that text fields that
> > > appear
> > > to render each letter in a box (combing?) are displayed with
> > > PDFBox,
> > > but 'unspaced' textfield values are not rendered.
> > > 
> > > I would like to know if there is some way that I can detect that
> > > a
> > > field won't be rendered and to correct it via PDFBox code before
> > > rendering.
> > > 
> > > Additional information:
> > > 
> > > The PDF forms originate from other independent organizations,
> > > which
> > > are consumed and populated by my application.
> > > 
> > > I've attached stripped down versions (just three fields) of one
> > > of
> > > these forms, namely EmptyForm.pdf (unpopulated) as consumed by my
> > > application and then PopulatedForm.pdf after field processing and
> > > then saved (all via PDFBox API).
> > > 
> > > Below basic PDFBox code that I use to achieve this:
> > > 
> > > try ( var pdfDoc = PDDocument.load( new File("EmptyForm.pdf") ) )
> > > {
> > >     var pdForm = pdfDoc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
> > >     pdForm.setNeedAppearances( true );  //*1
> > > 
> > >     for ( var field : pdForm.getFields() )
> > >     {
> > >         var fldValue = getValueFor( field.getPartialName() );
> > >         field.setValue( fldValue );
> > >     }
> > > 
> > >     pdForm.refreshAppearances();  //*1
> > >     var pages = new PDFRenderer( pdfDoc );
> > >     var pgImage = pages.renderImage(0);
> > > 
> > >     // display pgImage: only two fields have been rendered NOT
> > > three
> > > ?
> > > 
> > >     pdfDoc.save( "PopulatedForm.pdf" );
> > > }
> > > catch ( IOException IO )
> > > {
> > >     IO.printStackTrace();
> > > }
> > > 
> > > //*1 Without these two lines Acrobat and Edge also exhibit the
> > > same
> > > behavior as PDFBox
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This happens using JRE 11 and PDFBox  2.0.24,  2.0.27, as well as
> > > 3.0.0 alpha3
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Jurgen
> > > 
> > > 
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