Hi Tilman, This is a small follow-up to the case below. My team and I have had much success in using PDFBox 2 with XFDF support. Thanks for the fixes in late 2015.
Now recently we came across an issue we do not understand at all. Again we do what the intention of the initial case was: - We have a PDF or PDF/A-1b document (source document) - We have a separate XFDF file for commenting which we “stamp” onto the original PDF / PDF/A1-ab document to create a new PDF document - This is done by a small Java class “XFDFStamper.java” - The XFDF sample is quite easy: basically a textbox with comment plus arrow. - This document shall be shown in the browsers o A) By using Internet Explorer with the Adobe Reade plugin o B) By using Chrome natively which in turn uses PDF.js Strange thing now is: - IE with Adobe plugin renders the “stamped” PDF correctly - Chrome does not show the markups – it shows the text of the original document – plus: when you hover the document with the mouse, at the location where the markup is, a yellow comment box appears, like a big tooltip. But: when you merge the 2 documents above via Adobe Acrobat, also Chrome displays the markup correctly. So there must be a difference between what Adobe Acrobat does and what PDFBox (or our code???) does. I can provide the simple Java sample code plus the documents that show the difference plus source document and respective XFDF. We assume there must be something which is still wrong inside PDFBox or (same probability ☺) we are doing wrong in our code. But we currently do not see the issue in our code. Can I provide that info to you for a small debugging? Where can I upload this (small ZIP container)? Herzliche Grüße / Best regards Matthias Stoll Project Manager PMP® Application Business Services – Public Sector T +49 7031 450 5319 M +49 151 1475 2248 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> EntServ Deutschland GmbH Schickardstr. 32 71034 Böblingen dxc.technology<http://www.dxc.technology/> / Twitter<https://twitter.com/dxctechnology> / Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/DXCTechnology/> / LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/dxctechnology> [dxc_logo_hz_blk_rgb_150 - smaller] Geschäftsführer: Michael Eberhardt, Joachim Löffler Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen, Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 757510 VAT ID: DE307881136 From: Stoll, Matthias Sent: Montag, 7. Dezember 2015 12:36 To: [email protected] Subject: XFDF support and errors Dear All, I am currently investigating in using PDFBox (my tests used PFDBox 2.0RC2) for a small use case „stamping“ annotations from a given XFDF format (created by Qoppa’s jPDFEditor/jPDFNotes, www.qoppa.com<http://www.qoppa.com>) into a given PDF/A-1b file. This works with a surprisingly minimal set of Java code line ☺ But: obviously not all XFDF elements are supported and/or there are bugs in reading XFDF up to now. I just wanted to let you know about my experiences. a) Drawing lines painted by a pencil (element: “<gesture>”) do not show up at all after stamping them. Why? Sample data to test with: <ink name="C2B070EBB736993EA25F4545350AD2C3" style="solid" width="4.0" flags="print" date="D:20151207122033+01'00'" color="#00ff00" opacity="1.0" page="0" subject="Bleistift" rect="62.4562,1378.1637,167.5599,1402.8388" title="matstoll"><inklist><gesture>68.4562,1385.1637;69.7534,1385.1637;73.6451,1385.1637;77.5368,1385.1637;82.7258,1387.7582;89.212,1389.0554;93.1037,1390.3525;96.9954,1390.3525;100.8871,1391.6498;104.7788,1392.947;111.2649,1394.2443;116.4539,1394.2443;121.6428,1395.5415;125.5345,1395.5415;130.7235,1395.5415;134.6152,1395.5415;139.8041,1395.5415;143.6958,1395.5415;148.8848,1395.5415;151.4792,1395.5415;155.3709,1396.8387;156.6682,1396.8387;157.9654,1396.8387;160.5599,1396.8387</gesture></inklist><contents>Pencil line</contents></ink> b) Polygons (at least when created with jPDFNotes) throw an exception when reading: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "1318.7075;1054.6517" at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(Unknown Source) at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.parseFloat(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Float.parseFloat(Unknown Source) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fdf.FDFAnnotationPolygon.initVertices(FDFAnnotationPolygon.java:101) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fdf.FDFAnnotationPolygon.<init>(FDFAnnotationPolygon.java:78) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fdf.FDFDictionary.<init>(FDFDictionary.java:196) Sample data to test with: <polygon name="534DC02A197B56578FFA6AE5F178100F" style="solid" width="9.0" flags="print" date="D:20151207121013+01'00'" color="#0000ff" opacity="1.0" page="0" subject="Polygon" rect="857.5527,1117.7167,1063.6517,1334.1936" title="matstoll"> <vertices>866.5527,1318.7075;1054.6517,1325.1936;1032.5987,1126.7167;876.9306,1179.9034;866.5527,1318.7075;</vertices> </polygon> c) A cloudy polygon cannot be read either – I assume a general issue reading polygons. Sample data to test with: <polygon name="0276B0ECDCA680FDB0C0AE8377AE0FAA" style="cloudy" width="4.0" flags="print" date="D:20151207122247+01'00'" intensity="2" color="#ff5500" opacity="1.0" page="0" subject="Cloud/Wolke" rect="278.8037,1105.6361,563.5944,1216.9184" title="matstoll" IT="PolygonCloud"><vertices>310.0391,1147.4725;420.304,1205.8481;555.2164,1117.6361;342.4699,1117.6361;286.6888,1134.5002;310.0391,1147.4725;</vertices></polygon> d) A freetext (“<freetext>”) element will not show up correctly: b1) Though “width=0.0” for the box, it PDFBox will render a box around the text b2) Though font is set to “font: Courier 12pt; color:#000000” a wrong font will be rendered b3) The color setting will be ignored: my tests setting a color of font and border to red showed up a textbox with black border and black text. e) A freetext element with legend options does not show up correctly: e1) Colors are wrong/ignored e2) Font size not correct e3) Legend arrow not drawn Sample data to test with: <freetext name="95DB90502D987FDE0DD5446ED48C098A" style="solid" width="3.0" justification="left" flags="print" date="D:20151207122813+01'00'" color="#4055ff" callout="356.7395,1471.7811,479.2464,1372.3664,494.2464,1327.1395" page="0" subject="Legend textfield" fringe="137.5069,-0.0,0.0,86.9147" rect="356.7395,1269.4126,704.3984,1471.7811" head="OpenArrow" title="matstoll" IT="FreeTextCallout"><contents>This is a legend with arrow</contents><defaultstyle>font: Courier 24pt; color:#BFAAFF</defaultstyle><defaultappearance>1.0 0.7490196078431373 0.0 rg /Helv 12 Tf</defaultappearance></freetext> There might be more of such issues – but I think this should be sufficient info for now to check how to proceed. Adobe Acrobat renders all these test cases correctly by the way, so I assume the XFDF elements are all correct. I can provide the sample code if needed – where shall I upload it – if needed? As I do not find that much info about the support of XFDF in various PDF libraries – what about the official support in PDFBox? Should all of the samples work? What are the plans to do so? Thanks a lot in advance. Herzliche Grüße / Best regards Matthias Stoll Project Manager PMP® Application Business Services – Public Sector +49 7031 450 4509 Office +49 151 1475 2248 Mobile Herrenberger Strasse 140, 71034 Böblingen [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [HPE_logoemail] Geschäftsführer: Heiko Meyer (Vorsitzender), Thomas Bässler, Volkhard Bregulla, Michael Eberhardt, Angelika Gifford, Ernst Reichart. Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Jörg Menno Harms Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen, Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 244081 WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 30409072
