Hi,
I've tried this 2 ways of reading form data so far, and I don't know what I'm
doing wrong. The first time I did it I got field names that were meaningless
to me, so I edited it in Designer 7 and then the field names became garbled.
I downloaded a form off the IRS's website for testing.
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040ez.pdf
I ran it through this code:
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("C:\\f1040ez.pdf");
PRAcroForm form = reader.getAcroForm();
if(form == null)
{
System.out.println("This form has no fields");
}
ArrayList list = form.getFields();
for(Object o:list)
{
PRAcroForm.FieldInformation fieldInfo =
(PRAcroForm.FieldInformation)o;
System.out.println(fieldInfo.getName());
}
reader.close();
and got output like this:
f1_002(0)
f1_003(0)
f1_004(0)
f1_005(0)
f1_006(0)
f1_007(0)
f1_008(0)
...
...
...
As you can see, field names aren't meaningful. I changed the first one to
firstName and the second to lastName in designer 7 and then saved it.
When I ran the same code I got a bunch of null characters in the field names.
So, I thought I was doing something wrong, and I used the code here:
http://itext.ugent.be/library/com/lowagie/examples/forms/ListFields.java
With the code from the website it still had the null characters there. I can't
paste the contents here because yahoo doesn't let you paste null characters.
Is there a workaround for this? How can I change the field names to something
meaningful without messing it up? Is there another PDF editor I should use?
Thanks,
Joe
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