But why then Acrobat DC renders those fields correctly in the same document? By going back to merging, is there a way to tell that document was merged from other documents or not? Does PDFBox treat them differently?
On 2016-09-16 18:54 (+0300), Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 16.09.2016 um 17:04 schrieb Andrew Bogdanov: > > > > Hi. I'm trying to retrieve an Acroform data of the PDF by using this code: > > > > COSArray fields = > > (COSArray)this.acroForm.getDictionaryObject(COSName.getPDFName("Fields")); > > > > As a result I have got empty array, but this doc for sure have may > > filed inside, if I open this doc through the console using > > > > java -jar pdfbox-app-2.0.2.jsr PDFReader document_name.pdf > > I am able to see all fields, please see attach > > > > I noticed that such behavior is always happening when I'm trying to > > open document that was merged from several documents in Acrobat DC > > > > What you saw are widget annotations. But your acroform array is indeed > empty, so you have no fields. So go back to the last step, i.e. the merging. > > Tilman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
