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 > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ---- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
