Refers to form fields used in Adobe Acrobat
Questions tagged [acrofields]
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iTextSharp Duplicating Acrofields
I have an acroform on page 1 of my document. I am creating a blank second page and i would like to show one of the fields on this page as well. If the user changes the value of this field on either of the pages, i want them both to show the new…

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ITextSharp Save PDF without Fields
I want to save a PDF file in a flatted mode. I have tried all the online solution but never works in my code.
I have a file generated with ITextSharp and Acrofields. When i try to set the option pdf.FormFlattening = true; it doesn't work for my…

Roberto Mindoli
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Why iText form.getAppearanceStates(key) method return inconsistent values for Check Box field?
I have PDF with acroForm that was created using Adobe Acrobat Standard DC.
There is Chekcbox field that I populate using Java iText 5.
And I do not understand why, IMHO, form.getAppearanceStates(key) method return inconsistent values for this…

Renat Gatin
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Read format category from PDF using itextsharp
I can read the fields from a pdf using C# and iTextSharp. Any way to identify the format of a text field as well?

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getAcroFields() get different fields with same name
I'm working with iText in a Java environment, and I want to recover different acrofields with the same tag-name on pdf.
This is my current code:
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, output);
AcroFields fields =…

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Lock digitally signed PDF acro-field after one time filling
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 we…

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Itext 5.5.8. Pdfreader and Pdfstamper don't work
I'm trying to fill acrofields of existing pdf via android application. when I run this code app doesn't create new file, or at least I don't see it. Where I make mistakes? I put my existing pdf in res/raw folder of the app
public class Set1 extends…

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Join PDF file with AcroFrom - iOS
I'm trying to merge some pdf files using Quartz. I success with merge, but some files have acrofields and during merge it seems that I lost those fields.
Does anyone as a suggestion? I'm stucked with this problem

Lucas Tegliabue
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How to export data set using pdf template with itext?
In my project, some data sets are needed to be exported in PDF format.
I learned that iText is helpful, and PdfpTable can do the work, but it needs much code to deal with styles. While using PDF template can save time and code for adjusting style,…

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Copy text from one AcroField to another
I'm trying to copy text from an AcroField named "Date Signed" to the field "In_Person_Date" if a checkbox is ticked. I tried
function sync()
{
var n1 = document.getElementById('Date Signed');
var n2 = document.getElementById('In_Person_Date');
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Abraham
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iText7 change form text colour
I use iText7 and Java to populate pdf forms. The pdf modules were created with Adobe program and I use a custom font, I embed into the finished PDF.
If I try to add some coloured text to the pdf, the entire program crashes. How can I do ?
Here is…

Fjordo
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How to get acroFields from a PDF page(iText)?
How can I get the acroFields from a specific page in PDF file using iText?
More exactly using the package com.lowagie.text.pdf.
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(path);
int pages = reader.getNumberOfPages();
if(pages > 0)
{
for(int i = 1 ; i <=…

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XFA missing filled fields?
I am using pdfbox-1.8.12 to read content from PDF to get XFA.
I have been able to get XFA for most of the files successfully without missing out on any field values.
The trouble is with some files like error.pdf. I have many of the fields having no…

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Printed Pdf show no content of filled AcroForms
I am using itextSharp 4.1.6 to add AcroFields to an existing PDF and in a second step, fill these fields with content.
When I open these documents in Adobe Reader, I can see the content. When I try to print the document, all filled fields are…

Anja
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Acrobat DC and acroforms / acrofields
we have been happily processing acroforms with our backend software. Now a customer provided forms created with latest Acrobat DC version. These forms cannot be processed by us, we do not understand the fields.
Is there any change apparent here? I…

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