Hi Luis, could you attach a sample file using a comb to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-91 so that we have another test case?
BR Maruan Am 09.09.2014 um 12:31 schrieb Luis Herrero <[email protected]>: > Hello. > > Thanks for your reply. > > I've also found this related thread about the issue: > http://www.coderanch.com/t/637067/open-source/PDFBox-save > > Do you know where I can find any example about the stream appearance > modification? > > For my project, I have to use released software. > It's not extremely urgent because those comb fields are only a small part > of the application, but it would be nice to have at least a provisional > solution in a short term. > > > Regards, > > > 2014-09-09 11:42 GMT+02:00 Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> for a form field there are two representations, the value and how the >> field appears on screen/printed (the appearance). At that point in time >> PDFBox doesn’t use the setting when it’s calculating the appearance. As a >> workaround you could change the appearance stream after the value has been >> set. >> >> There is already an issue for that >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-91. >> >> For your project do you have to use released software or could you use a >> trunk version of PDFBox? How urgent would a fix be to you? >> >> BR >> Maruan >> >> Am 09.09.2014 um 11:30 schrieb Luis Herrero <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>> There’s a similar question on the thread “field comb” on 28 may 2014 with >>> no answer. >>> >>> >>> >>> I have a pdf generated with LibreOffice to be prefilled by an >> application. >>> >>> >>> >>> There are several comb text boxes (for example to insert a telephone >> number >>> or a postal code) >>> >>> >>> >>> I set the value of the AcroForm field -> setValue(‘’12345’’) >>> >>> The function shouldComb() returns true. >>> >>> MaxLengh returns 5. >>> >>> I need to set the property doNotScroll to false in order to the text to >> be >>> displayed, if not the text is not printed in the resulting pdf -> >>> setDoNotScroll(false) >>> >>> With this property set, the string is printed in the text box, but the >>> numbers are not placed in their respective boxes, as you can see here : >>> >>> >>> >>> pdfbox output: http://i.imgur.com/yjjhE51.png >>> >>> desired output: http://i.imgur.com/s5BnXK6.png >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I haven’t found much information about the behaviour of comb fields in >>> pdfbox. >>> >>> Is this behaviour of automatically placing numbers in their boxes >> available >>> in pdfbox ? >>> >>> Is it necessary any additional implementation ? >> >>
