Weird, macOS Preview considers them as fields, making it possible to enter data.
But happily, entering blanks, and then saving it (using macOS Preview), makes them proper fields, and then PrintFields can see those fields. I'll try that first next time :-) Thanks for looking at it! Ulf On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de> wrote: > These fields are not in the acroform field list, that is why. This is the > acroform field list: > > > The page 2 "fields" only exist as annotations: > > > Something must have gone wrong when generating this PDF. > > Tilman > > On 6/4/2025 7:20 PM, Ulf Dittmer wrote: > > This one is > https://ulfdittmer.com/pdfbox/Guide_HE.pdf<https://ulfdittmer.com/pdfbox/Guide_BW.pdf> > <https://ulfdittmer.com/pdfbox/Guide_BW.pdf> > > I can use PDFBox to fill in the fields on page 1, but not some of those on > page 2 - they're not changed. Specifically, "Wohnanschrift im Ausland: > Staat" and "Adresse" as well as "E-Mail-Adresse" and "Telefonnummer" > > The PDFBox Debugger shows those form fields, but the PrintFields example > code > (https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/blob/trunk/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/PrintFields.java) > does not. Those 4 that I mentioned are not in its output, and using the > field names from PDFDebugger does not work. > > Am I missing something, or is there more going on? > > > >
