Hello Thanks for helping us out with such good suggestions. My answers are below:
I have no idea; but in the code I attached yesterday, it was possible to set the checkbox with check() or uncheck(). > > But if I understand you correctly, that method didn't work for you; the > answer by Maruan suggests that the appearance must be set as well in some > PDFs. (The appearance stream is a sequence of PDF operators that draws > "what you see") And that is the moment where one would have to look at the > PDFs themselves in an editor to see what's inside. > > I looked in the jmactest.pdf file, that one has appearance streams for > both states, this can be seen at Root/AcroForm/Fields/[1]/AP/N in the > PDFDebugger. (Use the 2.0 version jar to jump directly with the path I > mentioned, get it here: > > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/pdfbox/pdfbox-app/2.0.0-SNAPSHOT/ > Thanks for this super link. I was a bit lost for a moment. The output of the two PDFs (one template and a filled out one) using the PDFDebugger is quite extensive. How shall I best display it to you guys? The PDFs are here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Bzk_1dcyc5SmRpQUJPR3JGUkk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Bzk_1dcyc5Tk1qcVo2Yk02dTA/view?usp=sharing Using the SNAPSHOT from 2015/07/04 (java -jar ../pdfbox-app-2.0.0-20150704.091928-1476.jar PDFDebugger Test.pdf), I get a stackdump when clicking on the following individual node entry: Root/AcroForm/Fields/[0]/Kids/[0]/Kids/[0]/P The trace is as follows: [image: Inline image 1] > So you would have to see what's in the file that you generate, or what's > in the template you use. > I do not understand this output at the moment. What do I have to look for? > Re skype etc, I don't even have skype or a headset, and I'm not really the > best choice anyway. And sooner or later one would have to look at the PDF > too, and thus likely see the name of your contact partner, thus breaking > the NDA :-( > I believe that another person looking at the PDF would be a feasible exception, but it's definitely gray area. > I see that the jmactest file is compressed so you won't see much in the > editor, so I used WriteDecodedDoc utility to decompress it, and here's the > relevant part for the chekcbox: (it looks less messy if you use > PDFDebugger!): > > How do I get such an output using the above mentioned PDFDebugger? Thanks and best regards Roberto
