Hi Tilman, Thank you for responding..
Below is a gist that shows a screen shot of the file opened in the pdf debugger.. I wish I had used the tool to begin with!!! https://gist.github.com/kodjobaah/8e61f8a56860c8af907196f4b4127cdb I have also added the original document to one drive. https://1drv.ms/b/s!AmNEMt7g6Kbuhhpm9GYVfWlvAhIO?e=rBM3Y2 Thanks, Kodjo On 19/06/2019, 12:22, "Tilman Hausherr" <[email protected]> wrote: >Please upload the PDF to a sharehoster and mention what version you are >using. > >Also open the file with PDFDebugger and habe a look at the acroform. And >read the java javadoc of getFields(). > >Tilman > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Gesendet mit der Telekom Mail App ><https://kommunikationsdienste.t-online.de/redirects/email_app_android_sen >dmail_footer> > > > >--- Original-Nachricht --- >Von: Kodjo Afriyie - iSite Eng >Betreff: Re: Forms elements not being recognised. >Datum: 19.06.2019, 14:17 Uhr >An: [email protected] > > > > >After further investigation.. It appears the form fields are stored as >annotations. > >From: Kodjo Afriyie - iSite Eng <[email protected] ><mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] ><mailto:[email protected]> >> >Reply-To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ><mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >" < >[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto: >[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >Date: Wednesday, 19 June 2019 at 12:08 >To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto: >[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >" < >[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto: >[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >Subject: Forms elements not being recognised. > >I used the tool below to create the attached document. > >https://www.sejda.com/desktop <https://www.sejda.com/desktop> > >The following code returns an empty list for the form elements. >PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = document.getDocumentCatalog ><http://document.getDocumentCatalog> (); >PDAcroForm acroFom = docCatalog.getAcroForm ><http://docCatalog.getAcroForm> >(); >List<PDField> fields = acroForm.getFields <http://acroForm.getFields> (); > >But when I create the document using pdf box it is able to recognise the >form elements. > >Thanks, >Kodjo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
