as Duane pointed out XFA is different than a "regular" AcroForm. If it's a static XFA form the XFA fields are represented in AcroForms. If it's a dynamic XFA form - well then you need to extract the XFA xml content, modify it and put it back in to get the changes. One would need a sample of the PDF to help you further.
Kind regards Maruan Sahyoun Am 19.11.2012 um 23:14 schrieb Duane Nickull <[email protected]>: > Yeah, XFA is harder. PDFBox has a getXFA() function but we had to write > our own libraries to work with XFA as PDFBox only returned a PDXFA object. > You also have to feed it an argument of an org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSBase > object. > > It is important to look closely at the PDFBox source if you plan to get > this XFA back and work with it. XFA should come as a chunk of XML and > then you have to parse that DOM and find the node you want to modify. > AFAIK, there are no code samples or tutorials on how to do this on the > market. > > Duane Nickull > > *********************************** > Technoracle Advanced Systems Inc. > Consulting and Contracting; Proven Results! > i. Neo4J, PDF, Java, LiveCycle ES, Flex, AIR, CQ5 & Mobile > b. http://technoracle.blogspot.com > t. @duanechaos > "Don't fear the Graph! Embrace Neo4J" > > > > > > > On 2012-11-19 1:08 PM, "Maruan Sahyoun" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> the form is a XFA form which you can tell from the #pageSet construct. >> This denominates fields within a master page of a form. A master page is >> a concept used within XFA to serve as a "background" holding logos, >> static fields. etc. Dependent on the form this master page may not be >> used within the form. In addition the field might be hidden. How did you >> test if the field doesn't contain any value after you set it? >> >> Using the field txtFirstName alone is not a complete reference to the >> form field as this is a child within applicationPrepaid.#pageSet Š. so >> the error is correct. >> >> Maruan Sahyoun >> >> Am 19.11.2012 um 17:42 schrieb Duane Nickull >> <[email protected]>: >> >>> Can you send me the form? There are many types of PDF forms. Acroforms >>> are easiest but there are FDF, XFDF and XFA as well. >>> >>> Duane Nickull >>> *********************************** >>> Technoracle Advanced Systems Inc. >>> Consulting and Contracting; Proven Results! >>> i. Neo4J, PDF, Java, LiveCycle ES, Flex, AIR, CQ5 & Mobile >>> b. http://technoracle.blogspot.com >>> t. @duanechaos >>> "Don't fear the Graph! Embrace Neo4J" >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2012-11-19 4:19 AM, "Milan Stojanovic" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I have a PDF file with some form fields that I need to fill in from >>>> Java >>>> code. I use PDFBox library for this, and this code: >>>> >>>> PDDocument pdfDoc = >>>> PDDocument.load("C:\\Users\\igor\\Desktop\\test.pdf");PDDocumentCatalog >>>> docCatalog = pdfDoc.getDocumentCatalog();PDAcroForm acroForm = >>>> docCatalog.getAcroForm();PDField field = >>>> >>>> acroForm.getField("applicationPrepaid[0].#pageSet[0].Pagina1[0].txtFirst >>>> Na >>>> me[0]");if >>>> (field != null) { >>>> field.setValue("Milan");} else { >>>> System.err.println("No field found with name:" + >>>> "applicationPrepaid[0].#pageSet[0].Pagina1[0].txtFirstName[0]");} >>>> pdfDoc.save("C:\\Users\\igor\\Desktop\\testout.pdf"); >>>> pdfDoc.close(); >>>> >>>> The PDF is not created by me, so I don't know what type of form the >>>> file >>>> uses (if I understand correctly, there are FDF and XFA forms). Since >>>> the >>>> PDF is not created by me, I used this tool >>>> http://support.persits.com/pdf/demo_formfields.asp to find out the >>>> names >>>> of >>>> the form fields, and it gave me this: >>>> >>>> applicationPrepaid[0].#pageSet[0].Pagina1[0].txtFirstName[0] >>>> >>>> When I use this long field name, I don't get any errors, but the >>>> resulting >>>> PDF does not contain the value I put in the field. I thought that maybe >>>> there was something wrong with the field name, so I used Pdftk >>>> tool<http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/>which >>>> gave me just txtFirstName for the field name. But when I use just >>>> that, I >>>> get the No field found with name: txtFirstName error. Help? >>> >>> >> > >
