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Refers to form fields used in Adobe Acrobat

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Creating Image Form Fields for PDFs in iText 7 .NET/C#

I am trying to create a form field in a PDF where the user can insert an image file and save the document so that the image is persistent (in a new PDF document, as opposed to altering an existing document). I know this is possible, because I've…
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Put a Button on PDF with PDFBox 2.x

I hope somebody can help me with my Problem with Buttons and Textfields on a PDF created with PdfBox 2.x. I tried to put a Button on my Page, which sets a Date in a Textfield with a Javascript function. That works fine. I then tried to put the…
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Get pdf page number by acrofield using itext7 with C#

With iText7, I like to get pdf page number by form field but I can't find method or property of getting page number. IDictionary fields = form.GetFormFields(); PdfFormField field = fields["fieldName"]; field.page <-- there is…
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Change AcroFields order in existing PDF with iText?

I have a pdf with text form fields at are layered one on top of the other. When I fill the fields via iText and flatten the form, the form field that I had created on top of the other form field is now on the bottom. For instance, I have a text…
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Need to auto-populate info to fillable PDF online, be able to edit the data, and then save directly to server

I'm working on a project where one of the main focuses is that the user be able to auto-populate an already-created industry-standard fillable template PDF form with data, then edit fields that were not populated (and/or fields that were populated)…
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getting null when call acroform.getFields() using pdfbox

I tried to get All the fields available in pdf form but I'm encountering a NullPointerException when calling acroform.getFields() using PDFBox. Sample: pdDoc = PDDocument.load(fileName); PDAcroForm form =…
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How to disable rendering of form fields in GhostScript

I am using GhostScript to render PDF files to PNG images. However, I have discovered that some PDF's have form fields that contain data (in this case todays date) that I would not like to be present in the output image. Is it possible to disable…
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How to extract field names, and properties, from PDF form?

I have 40+ forms and I want to make sure that common fields have the same names. This would greatly help me in storing and sorting the entries. Apart from that i want to make sure the formatting is consistent through all the forms. Is there a way i…
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Add Signature field to pdf in javascript

after hours of searching for a solution, I've decided to ask my first question on stackoverflow. Our application uses pdf-lib (https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf-lib) to modify existing PDFs, e.g. add images. We're now looking for a way to ad…
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How do I use custom fonts for AcroForm fields in a PDF generated from XHTML with Flying Saucer and OpenPDF?

I seem to have a problem that I'm unable to solve on my own. I'm using flyingsaucer-9.1.20 with openpdf-1.3.22 to generate PDFs from an XHTML source. My customer's CI demands Verdana as font for all their documents. So I embedded the font and…
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How to make Check Boxes render in PDF using Perl's PDF::API2

I've been trying for days to get a CheckBox or Radio Button to render using PDF::API2 and haven't been able to. I've poured over the PDFMark reference, PDF specification, and any examples I've been able to find. I can get simple Widget annotations…
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pdfStamper.AcroFields.SetField dont keep appearance settings

I use iTextSharp 5.5.13 to create pdf file with text AcroFields and in a second step edit the pdf filling the AcroFields with some values. For some fields i have to set a character spacing, so i use CreateAppearance method. this is the code: var…
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Digital Signature become invalid after filling pdf form

I create a pdf document and specify few acro-fields. These acro-fields used to be filled by java itext library. This document is digitally signed after adding all required acro-fields. We already set form filling property in digital signature but…
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How can I get the page number for a specific field in iText?

How can I get from which page is the field coming from? PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(path); AcroFields fields = reader.getAcroFields(); Set fieldNames = fields.getFields.keySet(); for(String fieldName : fieldNames) { String…
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Slow access to AcroFields (iTextSharp)

I'm using iTextSharp to extract SignatureNames from a PDF. I encountered problems (excessive slowness) accessing AcroFiels of big size and many pages PDF (~40MB and ~5000 pages). Here my code snippet: using iTextSharp.text.pdf; private static…
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