Hi,
> Am 25.06.2015 um 19:31 schrieb Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Am 25.06.2015 um 19:27 schrieb Evan Williams <[email protected]>:
>>
>> I apologize for my stupidity, but I have no idea how to get the value I
>> need from a PDAppearanceEntry. It is obviously a map of appearance streams
>> but I am not certain how to extract the actual name of the widget from the
>> appearance entry. Could you possibly give me a bit more detail
>
> I'll send you a quick sample later today for the Gender field - and no need
> to apologize - it's us who should make it easier to work with PDFBox.
Here you go:
PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load( new File("RheumatoidArthritis.pdf") );
PDAcroForm form = doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
PDTerminalField gender = (PDTerminalField) form.getField("Gender");
for (PDAnnotationWidget widget : gender.getWidgets())
{
System.out.println(((COSDictionary)
widget.getAppearance().getNormalAppearance().getCOSObject()).keySet());
}
BR
Maruan
>
> BR
> Maruan
>
>>
>> Thank you, and once again, I apologize for being dense.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> Am 25.06.2015 um 16:23 schrieb Evan Williams <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>> When I said getOptions() returned null I meant it returns empty list. Not
>>>> enough coffee. Everything else applies.
>>>
>>> I've created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2841 <
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2841> to handle that.
>>>
>>> - getOptions() returns the export values of the radio button group so
>>> that's not what you are looking for (and we might rename that method to
>>> better reflect it's intention)
>>> - you could use getWidgets() to get the individual radio buttons and from
>>> there for each individual widget
>>> widget.getAppearance().getNormalAppearance() gives you the dictionary to
>>> get the values from.
>>>
>>> BR
>>> Maruan
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Evan Williams <
>>> [email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Absolutely you can!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9TQWtr2Ipa9YlRORHVlTDVGS0k/view?usp=sharing
>>>>>
>>>>> But I strongly, strongly suspect that it is nothing to do with the pdf
>>>>> document itself because there are many many forms from many many sources
>>>>> and they all exhibit the same behavior.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the linked document I was, for example, able to enumerate 'Male' and
>>>>> 'Female' as values for the Radio Button group 'Gender' with my 1.8.9
>>> code.
>>>>> In my 2.0 code I can't.
>>>>>
>>>>> The way I used to enumerate radio button groups was to call the
>>> getKids()
>>>>> method an the radio collection and enumerate the returned fields. That
>>> is
>>>>> not possible in 2.0 and I don't have anything that works. the PDButton
>>>>> method goetOptions() always returns null.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am 24.06.2015 um 22:20 schrieb Evan Williams <
>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>> :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have an application written to use pdfbox 1.8.9 which is all about
>>>>>>> filling forms. I have a form library and I fill in values in forms
>>> using
>>>>>>> data I am handed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One of the things I also need to do is do introspection on the pdf
>>>>>> document
>>>>>>> to find out what fields are in it and make a template for filling the
>>>>>> form
>>>>>>> with data in my application.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am trying to get my application to work with pdfbox 2.0. Getting the
>>>>>>> forms I have to fill was pretty straightforward.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But I am having some difficulty with the introspection.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For the templates I like to have an enumeration of the possible values
>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> the field if the field has such values. For example the names of the
>>>>>>> possible values for a collection of radio buttons.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I understood how to get those values for the 1.8.9 PDRadioCollection
>>>>>> but I
>>>>>>> have tried various things to get the same information for the 2.0
>>>>>>> PDRadioButton and I am not getting the information I need. the
>>>>>> getOptions()
>>>>>>> method on PDButton looked like exactly what I needed. But it always
>>>>>> returns
>>>>>>> null for me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> could you upload a sample form to a public location to take a look?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BR
>>>>>> Maruan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As an aside I also used to get the on and off values of checkboxes
>>> with
>>>>>>> getOnValue() and getOffValue(). These are in the Javadoc but appear to
>>>>>> not
>>>>>>> be in the actual API. I don't care very much about those, but they
>>> were
>>>>>>> nice to have, and the Javadoc should be accurate as much as possible.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If anyone can help me with the RadioButton thing that would be a big
>>>>>> help.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> *Evan Williams*
>>>>>>> Sr. Software Engineer
>>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *www.ZappRx.com <http://www.zapprx.com/>*
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> *Evan Williams*
>>>>> Sr. Software Engineer
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>
>>>>> *www.ZappRx.com <http://www.zapprx.com/>*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *Evan Williams*
>>>> Sr. Software Engineer
>>>> [email protected]
>>>>
>>>> *www.ZappRx.com <http://www.zapprx.com/>*
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Evan Williams*
>> Sr. Software Engineer
>> [email protected]
>>
>> *www.ZappRx.com <http://www.zapprx.com/>*
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