> On 17 May 2016, at 12:18, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> Am 17.05.2016 um 17:04 schrieb Timo Rumland <[email protected]>: >> >> 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. >> > > the form fields value is set but the appearance stream for the form field > (what you see) is not updated as the > NeedAppearances flag is set to true. PDFBox (currently) handles it that it > doens't update the appearance stream > of the form field in that case (that should probably be changed).
Yeah - it seems like it would be ok for PDFBox to update the appearance stream, even though NeedAppearances is true. — John > What you can do is set NeedApparances to false, update the field and > afterwards set the value to true again. > > > BR > Maruan > > >> 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] >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
