Hello Ulf,

which pdfbox version are you using?

BR
Maruan


Am Donnerstag, dem 05.06.2025 um 10:08 +0200 schrieb Ulf Dittmer:
> 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>
> > > 
> > > 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?
> > > 
> > >  
> >  
> > 
> >  
> >  

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