[iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name
Hi! I just discovered a way to crash Acrobat Reader 5 / Win32: If you put two or more form fields (I used textfields) with the same name into a PDF document, - Acrobat Reader 4.0 displays all fields, and input in one field shows up in all other fields, too. This seems reasonable, as all fields use the same variable text. - Acrobat Reader 5 crashes (sooner or later) if you enter a field with the mouse pointer. So take care to use a different name for every form field... ;) Bye, Carsten ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
Re: [iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name
This will not apply to radio button lists. Adobe should change this as soon as possible, because in HTML its normal to have multiple Checkboxes with the same name. regards, david On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 12:38 PM, Carsten Frewert wrote: Hi! I just discovered a way to crash Acrobat Reader 5 / Win32: If you put two or more form fields (I used textfields) with the same name into a PDF document, - Acrobat Reader 4.0 displays all fields, and input in one field shows up in all other fields, too. This seems reasonable, as all fields use the same variable text. - Acrobat Reader 5 crashes (sooner or later) if you enter a field with the mouse pointer. So take care to use a different name for every form field... ;) Bye, Carsten ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
Re: [iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name
At 3:09 PM +0200 5/16/02, David Teran wrote: Adobe should change this as soon as possible, because in HTML its normal to have multiple Checkboxes with the same name. The only way to change this would be to completely revamp how forms are structured internally in a PDF file. They could do this, but it would break compatibility with all older viewers :(. Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
Re: [iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name
At 12:38 PM +0200 5/16/02, Carsten Frewert wrote: I just discovered a way to crash Acrobat Reader 5 / Win32: Acrobat shouldn't crash, but... If you put two or more form fields (I used textfields) with the same name into a PDF document, Yes, you can NOT do that! The way forms are implemented in PDF sets it up so that can't have two forms with the same name... Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
Re: [iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name
The only way to change this would be to completely revamp how forms are structured internally in a PDF file. They could do this, but it would break compatibility with all older viewers :(. Bad news, i wonder why they did it how its implemented now, it definitly is problematic when one is used to HTML. For example, PDFGenerator dynamically converts XML to PDF. Now as we switched to iText, it can also convert HTML forms to PDF forms on the fly (http://217.115.139.170/cgi-bin/WebObjects/PDFGeneratorExample0), but we had a lot of trouble with this limitation and it also means to have a workaround at the server side, too. regards, david Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
Re: [iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name
Hi Leonard! On Thu, 16 May 2002, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: At 12:38 PM +0200 5/16/02, Carsten Frewert wrote: I just discovered a way to crash Acrobat Reader 5 / Win32: Acrobat shouldn't crash, but... ACK. Not rendering the document and providing an error message would be ok, but crashing is really bad. If you put two or more form fields (I used textfields) with the same name into a PDF document, Yes, you can NOT do that! The way forms are implemented in PDF sets it up so that can't have two forms with the same name... Thanks for the info. This should be pointed out in the PDF spec, but that's not an iText problem. Bye, Carsten ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
