On an unrelated note, I keep getting an error message from tolenmil...@gmail.com whenever I send an email to this mailing-list. Could they maybe be removed from it?
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 10:50 AM Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de> wrote: > I don't know what you mean with "CO array", I thought this was a typo > because your image does not have a "CO" array. > > Re "but they seem to be quite oblique" - please try to run .getObject() > on them. > > PDField.createField() does not create a new field, it just creates the > PD-Object from a COSDictionary. > > Tilman > > > On 15.07.2023 10:43, Gilad Denneboom wrote: > > The CO array contains COSObjects, yes, but they seem to be quite oblique, > > with nothing more than a reference number. > > Are you saying I can use the COSObject itself to find the field? If so, > how? > > Note I'm not trying to create new fields, just locate the existing ones > > referenced in this array. > > > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 4:15 AM Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de> > > wrote: > > > >> How did you get the indirect number in the first place? > >> > >> Normally this would be a COSObject and you can dereference that one by > >> calling getObject() and here it would be a COSDictionary. You can pass > >> this to PDField.createField(). > >> > >> Tilman > >> > >> On 14.07.2023 20:54, Gilad Denneboom wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I'm trying to see if there's a way to get a field's name using PDFBox > >> based > >>> on the Indirect Reference number to it. > >>> Namely, the numbers that are used in the CO array of the AcroForm > >> object. I > >>> can see those numbers in the PDF Debugger app next to the field name > (see > >>> screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/gCHvVRx.png), but I looked everywhere > in > >>> the properties of the PDField and PDAnnotationWidget and can't find > them > >>> there. Any pointers will be much appreciated! > >>> > >>> Regards, Gilad. > >>> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 > >
