Hello Marc, was my thought too that 13 is the font size. Just for the records that would be something like
/Helv 13 Tf 0 g and not /Helv Tf 13 0 g BR Maruan Am Mittwoch, dem 04.06.2025 um 09:34 -0700 schrieb Marc Kaufman: > I would point out that the problem with this appearance setting is > not > the color, but the missing Font specification. > > / 13 0 g vs / Helv Tf 13 0 g. The 13 being the font size. > > Marc > > On 6/4/2025 1:09 AM, sahy...@fileaffairs.de wrote: > > Your welcome. Good that you found a solution. > > > > We could handle the wrong color setting in pdfbox and use defaults > > instead of throwing but I'm not a big fan of that as different > > users of > > the lib might use different defaults. > > > > BR > > Maruan > > > > Am Mittwoch, dem 04.06.2025 um 09:54 +0200 schrieb Ulf Dittmer: > > > Thank you, that put me on the right track. I had no idea about > > > the > > > inner > > > workings of appearances, and your explanation taught me enough > > > about > > > it to > > > substitute something in case a field has a weird one - kudos! > > > > > > I'm guessing the form is mostly printed out, and filled in by > > > hand, > > > so that > > > this issue hasn't surfaced before. > > > > > > Cheers! > > > Ulf > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 10:27 pmsahy...@fileaffairs.de < > > > sahy...@fileaffairs.de> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello Ulf, > > > > > > > > a typical default appearance string looks like this > > > > > > > > /Helv 12 Tf 0 g > > > > > > > > There are two operators Tf, to set the font, and g to set the > > > > color > > > > with the arguments for the operators being supplied before. > > > > > > > > Helv 12 being the arguments for Tf and > > > > 0 being the argument for g > > > > > > > > Your form has / 13 0 g > > > > > > > > So 13 0 are being treated as arguments for the g operator. But > > > > there > > > > are no colors with 2 arguments. It's either 1 (Greyscale) , 3 > > > > (RGB) > > > > or > > > > 4 (CMYK) arguments. > > > > > > > > So IMHO the default apperace string is wrong. > > > > > > > > It's also very unusual that it doesn't set a font. > > > > > > > > Workaround would be to set the default apperance string similar > > > > to > > > > the > > > > first sample above. > > > > > > > > BR > > > > Maruan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
