Hi Rajeev, unfortunately not as the whole content of the COSString is the JavaScript call. AFDate_FormatEx is a JavaScript method defined within Adobe Acrobat taking the format as a parameter.
BR Maruan Am 17.10.2014 um 15:58 schrieb Rajeev Menon <[email protected]>: > Hi Maruan, > > Thanks for putting me in the right direction. I tried the following to get > the details in the actions object. > > System.out.println("actions K: > "+field.getActions().getCOSDictionary().getDictionaryObject("K")); > System.out.println("actions F: > "+field.getActions().getCOSDictionary().getDictionaryObject("F")); > > Here is the content of the COSDictionary. > > COSDictionary{ > (COSName{F}:COSDictionary{(COSName{JS}:COSString{AFDate_FormatEx("*yyyymmdd*");}) > > (COSName{S}:COSName{JavaScript}) }) > (COSName{K}:COSDictionary{(COSName{JS}:COSString{AFDate_Keysd");}) > (COSName{S}:COSName{JavaScrit}) }) > } > Is there any direct method to extract the "yyyymmdd" instead of doing > string operations on this text? > > Thanks, > Rajeev. > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Rajeev, >> >> there is no such thing like a date field in PDF. Date fields are >> represented as regular text field with some JavaScript (if you define them >> in Acrobat). You can get the field actions with >> >> >> http://pdfbox.apache.org/docs/1.8.6/javadocs/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/interactive/form/PDField.html#getActions() >> >> BR >> Maruan >> >> Am 16.10.2014 um 19:49 schrieb Rajeev Menon <[email protected]>: >> >>> All, >>> >>> I am trying to find if a field is of type Date and if yes, what is the >>> format (like yyyymmdd) of the date (in a Flat PDF). I tried the following >>> lines of code to see if anything helps, but no luck. >>> >>> if (fldPD!=null) { >>> >>> >> System.out.println("*************"+entryData.getKey()+"*****************"); >>> System.out.println("subtype = >>> "+fldPD.getWidget().getSubtype()); >>> System.out.println("annotName = >>> "+fldPD.getWidget().getAnnotationName()); >>> System.out.println("hilit = >>> "+fldPD.getWidget().getHighlightingMode()); >>> System.out.println("fldFlags = >> "+fldPD.getFieldFlags()); >>> System.out.println("contents = >>> "+fldPD.getWidget().getContents()); >>> System.out.println("appeStream = >>> "+fldPD.getWidget().getAppearanceStream()); >>> //fldPD.setValue(entryData.getValue()); >>> } >>> >>> Please help me here. >>> >>> Thanks, >> >>
