[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-1100) PDFMerger: Empty form fields

["Ernst Eibensteiner (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ernst Eibensteiner commented on PDFBOX-1100:
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I created a short test program for that case:

        PDDocument pdf = PDDocument.load("C:\\tmp\\a.pdf");
        PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = pdf.getDocumentCatalog(); 
        PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm();
        List<PDField> list = acroForm.getFields();
        Iterator<PDField> it = list.iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
          PDField field = it.next();
          System.out.println("FQ Name: "+field.getFullyQualifiedName());
          System.out.println("Value: "+field.getValue());
        }

Output shows:
=============
FQ Name: Testfeld
Value: null
FQ Name: Testfeld2
Value: null

So it seems that "field.getValue()" does not work correctly or does not get the latest value from the form field.

> PDFMerger: Empty form fields
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-1100
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1100
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Utilities
>    Affects Versions: 1.6.0
>         Environment: Windows 2008 R2
>            Reporter: Gerhard Temper
>         Attachments: a.pdf, b.pdf, c.pdf
>
>
> Merging two PDFs with form fields results in a PDF with empty fields.
> The issue seems to be similar to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1031, but in my case i see the fields but not the value in the fields.
> I use the following command to merge the PDFs:
> java -classpath pdfbox-app-1.6.0.jar org.apache.pdfbox.PDFMerger a.pdf b.pdf c.pdf

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