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From: Gilad Denneboom <gilad.denneboom@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 14:21:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: Problems combining files with form fields
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Wow, that's unfortunate... What about the PDFMergerUtility, though? Does it
have the same limitation?

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Am 05.05.2015 um 11:59 schrieb Gilad Denneboom <
> gilad.denneboom@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Correct. And in some of the cases (example1) I can't even edit the form
> > fields properly after inserting the file to another PDF.
>
> reason is that importPage/addPage add the page content but not the form
> fields. You'd need to add the AcroForms manually (potentially looking at
> which PDWidgetAnnotations are really pointing at the page you are adding)
>
> BR
>
> Maruan
>
> >
> > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de=
>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Gilad,
> >>
> >>> Am 05.05.2015 um 11:45 schrieb Gilad Denneboom <
> >> gilad.denneboom@gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Maruan,
> >>>
> >>> Sure, here they are...
> >>>
> >>> Gilad
> >>> =E2=80=8B
> >>> batch_sequences 1.pdf
> >>> <
> >>
> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_eBFHMNjkhsNmlPNjJMcTJVXzQ/edit?usp=3Ddr=
ive_web
> >>>
> >>> =E2=80=8B=E2=80=8B
> >>> Input form.pdf
> >>> <
> >>
> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_eBFHMNjkhsaWlHbmYzSEFpX0U/edit?usp=3Ddr=
ive_web
> >>>
> >>> =E2=80=8B
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Maruan Sahyoun <
> sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Gilad,
> >>>>
> >>>>> Am 05.05.2015 um 11:30 schrieb Gilad Denneboom <
> >>>> gilad.denneboom@gmail.com>:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi guys,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This should be a simple task, but it turns out to be quite a comple=
x
> >> and
> >>>>> problematic one, I'm afraid...
> >>>>> I'm trying to combine two files, one with a bunch of form fields in
> it
> >> (a
> >>>>> single page, created in Acrobat) and one without any fields. I have
> >> tried
> >>>>> doing it using three different methods, and all three have failed, =
in
> >>>>> various ways.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Method 1: PDDocument importPage
> >>>>> I tried importing the page with the form fields into the existing
> >> files.
> >>>>> The page is placed at the end of the document (I need it at the
> >>>> start...),
> >>>>> but that's not the big issue. The big issue is that although the pa=
ge
> >>>> with
> >>>>> the form fields is added to the file, the PDAcroForm in the new fil=
e
> is
> >>>>> null and I'm having weird problems editing the form fields in Acrob=
at
> >>>> (see
> >>>>> "example1.pdf", try to make a selection in one of the drop-downs in
> >>>>> Acrobat).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Method 2: PDDocument addPage (how is this different from importPage=
,
> by
> >>>> the
> >>>>> way? The documentation is very lacking on this point. Also, why isn=
't
> >> it
> >>>>> possible to specify the page number where you want to insert the ne=
w
> >>>> page?)
> >>>>> The result is similar to importPage, only now I am able to make a
> >>>> selection
> >>>>> in the drop-down fields in Acrobat, but they are still not picked u=
p
> by
> >>>>> PDFBox when I re-load the file and try to access them (see
> >>>> "example2.pdf").
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Method 3: PDFMergerUtililty
> >>>>> In order to get the right page order I decided to merge the files
> >> instead
> >>>>> of adding one to the other.
> >>>>> Here the PDAcroForm object does exist in the merged files, but the
> >> values
> >>>>> of the fields are not picked up. Using getValue on the fields retur=
ns
> >> the
> >>>>> default value for the drop-downs and null for the text fields, even
> >>>> though
> >>>>> they are clearly filled-in (see "example3.pdf").
> >>
> >> So what you are saying is that looking at the form with Adobe Reader t=
he
> >> form is fine but trying to get the value using PDFBox you are not
> getting
> >> the value you are looking for?
> >>
> >> BR
> >> Maruan
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any help is appreciated=E2=80=A6
> >>>>
> >>>> Could you also upload the individual files prior to merging?
> >>>>
> >>>> BR
> >>>> Maruan
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards, Gilad.
> >>>>> =E2=80=8B
> >>>>> example1.pdf
> >>>>> <
> >>>>
> >>
> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_eBFHMNjkhscDdvcGhXNjRMZ28/edit?usp=3Ddr=
ive_web
> >>>>>
> >>>>> =E2=80=8B=E2=80=8B
> >>>>> example2.pdf
> >>>>> <
> >>>>
> >>
> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_eBFHMNjkhsck9RSTlNTWFtaHc/edit?usp=3Ddr=
ive_web
> >>>>>
> >>>>> =E2=80=8B=E2=80=8B
> >>>>> example3.pdf
> >>>>> <
> >>>>
> >>
> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_eBFHMNjkhsQXBRdVdDMGkyR2s/edit?usp=3Ddr=
ive_web
> >>>>>
> >>>>> =E2=80=8B
> >>>>
> >>>>
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