Mauran, Thanks for your reply. I'm going to a bit more testing myself before sharing the form and code. I had some (as yet unpredictable) success seeing the form values after saving the PDF with Acrobat Reader. I may be able to make progress on my own. If not, I'll come back here to post the form, etc. Thanks again. DIck
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:30 AM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Am 05.02.2017 um 20:35 schrieb Dick Martin <[email protected]>: > > > > Hi, > > I've been working with PDFBox 2.0.4 for a couple of days now. I've been > > successful at merging XFDF data into a form that had been created with > > Nuance PDF Converter. Next I set out to do some work with changing font > > size of textboxes based on the amount of text in the textbox field. > > As a > > basis for that, I've tried to retrieve the textbox value using > > getValueAsText after importing the XFDF data. Nothing comes back. I've > > tried using acrobat to change the value of one of the fields but I still > > get null in the value. I've also tried a version created with Acrobat X > > Standard. > > > > My next step was to process the PDF file after saving the merged XFDF > data > > with the PDFBox sample PrintFields. The textbox values that appear in > > Acrobat Reader (after adding setNeedAppearances(true)) do not appear in > the > > output of PrintFields either. > > please upload the form (empty, filled + sample code) to a public location. > I'll take a look. > > BR > Maruan > > > > > > After a lot of Googling and learning about XFA forms, I added this line > to > > Printfields to see if my form was XFA. It isn't. That line returned > > AcroForm > > System.out.println(acroForm.hasXFA() ? "XFA form" : "AcroForm"); > > > > As a further thought about XFA, I used one of the IRS forms I have to see > > how it behaved. PrintFields identifies it a an XFA form **and** shows > the > > textbox values. The form is f5504ez.pdf. > > > > Any ideas why PrintFields and my own use of getValueAsText isn't working > as > > expected on a PDF form created with Nuance PDF Converter? Have any > PDFBox > > users encountered the same? > > > > I just tried creating form in Acrobat X Standard. I populated one of its > > textboxes with data and then ran it into PrintFields. The data is > included > > in the output. I suppose I could redo the form(s) I plan to use using > > Acrobat instead of PDF Creator but the each have many, many fields so > that > > would be a chore. I thought I'd ask here first. > > > > Let me know of any details I may have omitted. > > Thanks. > > Dick > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
