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[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-4615) AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue doesn't set the bounding box on the appearance stream correctly

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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-4615:
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I suspect that this is a duplicate of PDFBOX-4471, because of the weird BBox. Try calling {{getWidgets().get(0).setAppearance(null)}} on your field before setting the value, this removes the appearance.

> AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue doesn't set the bounding box on the appearance stream correctly
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-4615
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4615
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: PDModel
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.16
>            Reporter: Rosalind Douglas
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: flattenedboundingbox.pdf, resetboundingbox.pdf
>
>
> Hello, thanks for all your effort with PDFBox. We use it heavily for parsing and flattening PDFs.
> BUG: In the attached PDF "resetboundingbox.pdf", we programmatically set the value of the text fields, then call pdAcroForm.flattten(), which produces the flattened PDF "flattenedboundingbox.pdf." I would expect that the text would entirely fill the text box (see textbox with {color:#8eb021}green border{color} in "flattenedboundingbox.pdf") but the text does not. Instead, the filled text area obeys another box instead (see text area with {color:#d04437}red border{color} in "flattenedboundingbox.pdf").
> POTENTIAL FIX: We've traced the problem to AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue, lines 200-210. As long as we always set the bounding box (line 243) like inĀ AppearanceGeneratorHelper.prepareNormalAppearanceStream, regardless of the if/else at line 200, then the flattening works correctly:
> {code:java}
> /** * replace AppearanceGeneratorHelper lines 199-210 with: */ 
> PDAppearanceStream appearanceStream = appearance != null && appearance.isStream() ? appearance.getAppearanceStream() : new PDAppearanceStream(field.getAcroForm().getDocument());
>  
> // copied from lines 237-243 
> int rotation = resolveRotation(widget);
> PDRectangle rect = widget.getRectangle(); 
> Matrix matrix = Matrix.getRotateInstance(Math.toRadians(rotation), 0, 0); 
> Point2D.Float point2D = matrix.transformPoint(rect.getWidth(), rect.getHeight()); 
> PDRectangle bbox = new PDRectangle(Math.abs((float) point2D.getX()), Math.abs((float) point2D.getY())); 
> appearanceStream.setBBox(bbox); 
> appearanceDict.setNormalAppearance(appearanceStream);
> {code}
> Something I'm not sure about: in methodĀ prepareNormalAppearanceStream, there is additional code for setting the matrix (lines 245-251), which we don't seem to need. Since it doesn't break anything, we just keep it too.
> Thanks again for your help!



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