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Subject: Re: Filling out PDPage forms
From: Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:29:36 +0200
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Hi,

> Am 21.04.2015 um 18:15 schrieb phiroc@free.fr:
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> Hi Maruan,
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> I have tried importing the form using LayerUtility.importPageAsForm(), =
into the destination PDF, as follows (sorry, Scala code, but =
comprehensible).

No, this will give you a page you can mount not another one - has =
nothing to do with AcroForm.

Did you follow the stack overflow post I mentioned?

BR
Maruan

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> However, the page is blank.
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> Is importPageAsForm the right method to import a form?
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> Cheers,
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> Philippe
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> --------------------------------------------------
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel._
> import org.apache.pdfbox.util._
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDRectangle
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> object App {
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>  def main(args: Array[String]) =3D {
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>  	val pathToPdfTemplateFile =3D =
"D:\\dev\\ProjectData\\fillbundlelabelformData\\pdf\\template\\LO_Labels21=
0315_formulaire.pdf"
>  	val pathToClonedFile =3D =
"D:\\dev\\ProjectData\\fillbundlelabelformData\\pdf\\generated\\clone.pdf"=

>  =09
>  	val templatePDDocument =3D =
PDDocument.load(pathToPdfTemplateFile)
>  	val clonedDocument =3D new PDDocument
>  	val pDPage =3D new PDPage(new PDRectangle(612, 792))
>  	clonedDocument.addPage(pDPage)
>  	val aLayerUtility =3D new LayerUtility(clonedDocument)
>  	val aPDXObjectForm =3D =
aLayerUtility.importPageAsForm(templatePDDocument, 0)    =20
>        clonedDocument.save(pathToClonedFile)
>        clonedDocument.close
> 	templatePDDocument.close
> 	=09
>  }
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> }
> ----------------------------------------------------------
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> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Maruan Sahyoun" <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
> =C3=80: users@pdfbox.apache.org
> Envoy=C3=A9: Mardi 21 Avril 2015 15:39:37
> Objet: Re: Filling out PDPage forms
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> OK,
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>> Am 21.04.2015 um 15:04 schrieb phiroc@free.fr:
>>=20
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> unfortunately, once I have imported several copies of the source PDF =
form page into the destination PDF, =
PDDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm() returns null.
>>=20
>=20
> so you have only imported the pages but not the AcroForm. If you =
import the AcroForm this will only have the fields pointing to the =
source page. You need to create new fields from the ones you have with =
unique names as I assume the fields on subsequent pages shall have their =
own content.  There is a sample available at =
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29371129/java-pdfbox-fill-out-pdf-form-=
append-it-to-pddocument-and-repeat/29417945#29417945 =
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29371129/java-pdfbox-fill-out-pdf-form=
-append-it-to-pddocument-and-repeat/29417945#29417945>
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> BR
>=20
> Maruan
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>=20
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>>=20
>> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Maruan Sahyoun" <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
>> =C3=80: users@pdfbox.apache.org
>> Envoy=C3=A9: Mardi 21 Avril 2015 14:53:48
>> Objet: Re: Filling out PDPage forms
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>> Hi,
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>>> Am 21.04.2015 um 12:35 schrieb phiroc@free.fr:
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>>>=20
>>> The source PDF contains a form which I need to make multiple copies =
of, in the destination PDF.
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>>> I have adapted code found on Stack Overflow to retrieve the source =
PDF's first page:
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>>> PDPage firstPage =3D (PDPage) =
templatePDDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(0);
>>> ...
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>>> and then to import it into the destination PDF:
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>>> PDPage clonedPDPage =3D clonedDocument.importPage(firstPage);
>>> ...
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>>> The destination PDF now contains several copies of the form.
>>>=20
>>> I now need to fill out the forms with data from a CSV file.
>>>=20
>>> How do I retrieve each page's form field, given that there's no =
PDPage.getAcroForm() function?
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>> AcroForms are not page related as a field can appear on multiple =
pages. You need to use doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm() to =
retrieve the form.
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>> BR
>> Maruan
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>>> Cheers,
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>>> Philippe
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>>> ----- Mail original -----
>>> De: phiroc@free.fr
>>> =C3=80: users@pdfbox.apache.org
>>> Envoy=C3=A9: Mardi 21 Avril 2015 11:32:27
>>> Objet: Copying PDPages
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>>> Hello,
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>>> I would like to copy several times the first page of a PDF document =
to another.
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>>> What is the best way to do this?
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>>> Many thanks.
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>>> Philippe
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