OK, Maruan. I've attached a pdf for testing to the issue in Jira.
Regards, 2014-09-09 17:07 GMT+02:00 Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>: > 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 ? > >> > >> > >
