>I take the form after it's been populated by iText, if I call for it's
AcroForm, I get back a null.
Do you close the stamper and read the document again? And then its null?
That would be indeed weird.
So try the following - re-read the file you filled with iText from your
localdisk and get the acroform and e.g. print out all fields and values.
Is that working?
2013/8/2 Josh Smith <jesmit...@gmail.com>
> It does seem to work before It goes through iText.
>
> I am setting the fields like this.
>
>
> PdfStamper stamp = new PdfStamper(
> new PdfReader(templateBody), output, '\0');
> AcroFields form = stamp.getAcroFields();
> for (String key : form.getFields().keySet()) {
> if (dataLoad.has(key)) {
> form.setField(key, dataLoad.getString(key));
> }
> }
> stamp.close();
> output.flush();
>
> where "dataLoad" is a JSON object that contains the incoming data.
>
> --
> Josh Smith
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>
> On Friday, August 2, 2013 at 9:41 AM, TvT wrote:
>
> then there are two questions:
>
> - does the document works before you put it through iText?
> - How do you populate (=fill) its textfields?
>
>
> 2013/8/2 Josh Smith <jesmit...@gmail.com>
>
> These are textfields.
> They are not grouped in a hierarchy. All fields reside at the same level.
>
> In doing some more digging, I noticed that when I take the form after it's
> been populated by iText, if I call for it's AcroForm, I get back a null.
> But before iText processing, the AcroForm can be called to return the list
> of fields that exist.
>
> Could that be the problem? And if so, how can I change that.
>
> --
> Josh Smith
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>
> On Friday, August 2, 2013 at 5:15 AM, TvT wrote:
>
> With the functionality you describe do you mean autofill? So you fill one
> field and the others with the same name are automatically filled with the
> same content?
>
> I just tried a pdf of mine and it is working fine in chrome. I can now
> only think that chrome has a problem with a certain characteristics of your
> fields and then doesn't display anything at all. This could be anything but
> we would need to know more about your PDF.
>
> - what fields are we talking about here? Textfields?
> - do you group them in a hierarchy? So the name full name is
> SomeNameParent.Kid.one?
>
> If you have the adobe acrobat at hand, try to create a textfield with a
> simple name and copy it. Then open that in chrome and see that it is
> working fine. Then compare the differnce between those fields...
>
> TvT
>
>
>
> 2013/8/2 Josh Smith <jesmit...@gmail.com>
>
> Unfortunately I don't have control of the end users computers to
> enforce that on everyone.
> I know its nit an iText issue but is there so change I can make via
> iText to the output to work around this?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 2, 2013, at 2:54 AM, iText Info <i...@1t3xt.info> wrote:
>
> > Op 1/08/2013 21:50, jesmith schreef:
> >> they are also
> >> displayed if I view the PDF in true client app (Mac Preview, or Adbobe
> >> Reader).
> > If Adobe Reader displays them and even Mac Preview displays them, but
> > not Chrome PDF Viewer (and probably not pdf.js in Firefox either), then
> > you're facing a problem many users have: the built-in viewers for Chrome
> > and Firefox ignore a large part of the PDF specification. The best way
> > to solve this, is to go to the configuration settings of these browsers
> > and switch to using the Adobe Reader plug-in instead of the built-in
> > viewer. It's the first thing I do with any new computer as I'm getting
> > too frustrated of opening a PDF in Chrome or Firefox seeing nothing but
> > a blank page whereas the PDF is 100% correct and shows the content
> > perfectly in Adobe Reader.
> >
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