Hello, after migrating from PDFBox 1.8 to 2.0.0, printing a PDF form via 'PrinterJob' and ' PDFPrintable ', in which I filled out the form fields via PDFBox, results in a PDF file (or a physical print) with the form fields empty.
With PDFBox 1.8, the following simple code worked: ---------- File sourcePdfForm = new File( "g:/test-form.pdf" ); File resultPdfForm = new File( "g:/test-form_out.pdf" ); // Load the source PDF form file PDDocument pdDocument = PDDocument.load( sourcePdfForm ); PDDocumentCatalog pdDocumentCatalog = pdDocument.getDocumentCatalog(); PDAcroForm pdAcroForm = pdDocumentCatalog.getAcroForm(); // Setting PDF field content in "textfield01" PDField pdField = pdAcroForm.getField( "textfield01" ); pdField.setValue( "test content" ); pdDocument.save( resultPdfForm ); pdDocument.close(); // Open the resulting PDF file, which shows the content in the PDF field "textfield01" Desktop.getDesktop().open( resultPdfForm ); // Now open the resulting file again, printing it with the default printer // No matter if the default printer is an PDF printer (like PDFCreator) or // an actual physical printer, the content of the field "textfield01" is empty pdDocument = PDDocument.load( resultPdfForm ); PrinterJob printerJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob(); printerJob.setJobName( "printerJob" ); printerJob.setPrintService( PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService() ); printerJob.setPrintable( new PDFPrintable( pdDocument ) ); printerJob.print( new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet( MediaSizeName.ISO_A4 ) ); pdDocument.close(); ---------- -- What this code sample does -- As you can see, this is a test case where I first load a source PDF form, setting the value of a form field and save the resulting PDF file. After that I load the resulting PDF file and use a PrinterJob to print it on the default printer. -- The problem -- Now using PDFBox 2.0.0: No matter what the default printer is - a PDF printer like PDFCreator or a physical printer - the form fields of the printed out PDF file are empty Interestingly, opening the resulting PDF form 'test-form_out.pdf' (see line 'Desktop.getDesktop().open( resultPdfForm );') in any PDF viewer (Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, PDF XChange Viewer etc.) shows the correct form field content for field 'textfield01', which is 'test content'. The test PDF form file I use is a really simple form, containing only a label and the form field named "testfield01". If you wish, you can download 'test-form.pdf' here: * https://goo.gl/VMiohj As mentioned, with PDFBox 1.8 I was able to print out PDF forms via a 'PrinterJob' with form field contents. -- Related posts -- There are several posts or bug reports regard empty form fields, like these: * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14541647/pdfbox-set-visible-when-printing (not providing a valid solution in my case) * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24149361/form-field-values-set-with-pdfbo x-not-visible-in-adobe-reader (my PDF form is a AcroForm and has no XFA data) * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-71 (setting 'pdAcroForm.getCOSObject().setItem( COSName.getPDFName( "NeedAppearances" ), COSBoolean.TRUE );' did not help in my case) Unfortunately, none of these did help. Any advice on this problem is highly appreciated Thanks a lot for your help! Best regards, Timo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
