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Subject: Re: issue- visibility of form field values for a merged pdf
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 10:07:01 +0200
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Hi,

> Am 26.06.2015 um 09:55 schrieb Atul Kulkarni =
<atul_kulkarni@persistent.com>:
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> Hi,
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> I'm not sure how to identify which one is used. Can you help?
> The file is opened inside the browser


in Firefox you can enter about:preferences#applications =
<about:preferences%23applications> in the address bar. Scroll down until =
you find the entry 'Portable Document Format' which will tell you the =
application being used to view the PDF - or in case it's handled by the =
builtin viewer will have the entry 'Preview in Firefox'.

BR
Maruan

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> Thanks,
> Atul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:sahyoun@fileaffairs.de]=20
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 12:01 PM
> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
> Subject: Re: issue- visibility of form field values for a merged pdf
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>> Am 26.06.2015 um 08:26 schrieb Atul Kulkarni =
<atul_kulkarni@persistent.com>:
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>> Hi Maruan,
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>> One more issue that we are having with merged pdf is, when it is sent =
to the browser (as a response) the pdf is displayed properly in IE and =
chrome but the firefox doesn't display any of the template fields.
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> are you viewing via Adobe Reader plugin or with the builtin PDF =
viewers? Same for all browsers?
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> BR
> Maruan
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>> Do you have any suggestion?
>>=20
>> Thanks,
>> Atul
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Atul Kulkarni
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 2:18 PM
>> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
>> Subject: RE: issue- visibility of form field values for a merged pdf
>>=20
>> Hi,
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>> Thanks. I think you are right, I'm getting consistent behavior with =
template file closed.  I think I was keeping template open to compare =
the output result. If we run merge command by keeping template file open =
it seems to affect visibility of fields randomly in the output.=20
>>=20
>> Thanks,
>> Atul
>>=20
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:sahyoun@fileaffairs.de]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 11:38 AM
>> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: issue- visibility of form field values for a merged pdf
>>=20
>> Hi,
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>>> Am 24.06.2015 um 03:00 schrieb Atul Kulkarni =
<atul_kulkarni@persistent.com>:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> We are using the custom code but I tested it using the same way you=20=

>>> mentioned here as well and results are reproducible to me. We have =
to=20
>>> open and close the merged pdf over and again to see the problematic=20=

>>> behavior. Could you please try merging and opening the merged pdf
>>> (10-15 times) over and again and you should see the field values=20
>>> missing. Sequence of steps that I use-
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>>> 1. merge
>>> 2. Open and check
>>> 3. Go to #1
>>>=20
>>=20
>> I did several times merge, open and check, close and the same again =
without any issues.
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>> If you don't close the document so you do merge, open and check and =
the merge again =E2=80=A6 then fields start to be 'missing'. But that's =
not an issue with PDFBox as the document is correctly generated.
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>> BR
>> Maruan
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>>> Thanks,
>>> Atul
>>>=20
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:sahyoun@fileaffairs.de]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 5:49 PM
>>> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
>>> Subject: Re: issue- visibility of form field values for a merged pdf
>>>=20
>>> I received the files via private mail and did test them using
>>>=20
>>> java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.8.jar PDFMerger "w4vt.pdf" "Accord=20
>>> Filled.pdf" merged-1.8.8.pdf
>>>=20
>>> and compared the result with the filled form prior to merging and =
all form fields are there and visible using Adobe Reader.
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>>> How are you merging the documents together? Do you use some custom =
code? If yes could you test the command line app as outlined above and =
let me know the results?
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>>> BR
>>> Maruan
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>>>> Am 22.06.2015 um 09:12 schrieb Maruan Sahyoun =
<sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>:
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>>>> if that's not possible you can send them to me via private mail.
>>>>=20
>>>> BR
>>>> Maruan
>>>>=20
>>>>> Am 21.06.2015 um 10:05 schrieb Atul Kulkarni =
<atul_kulkarni@persistent.com>:
>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Thanks Maruan.
>>>>> I'm confirming legality to put the pdfs in public domain and will =
get back to you ASAP.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:sahyoun@fileaffairs.de]
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 1:19 PM
>>>>> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: issue- visibility of form field values for a merged=20=

>>>>> pdf
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>=20
>>>>>> Am 21.06.2015 um 09:23 schrieb Atul Kulkarni =
<atul_kulkarni@persistent.com>:
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> We are using Apache PDFBox (Version 1.8.9) for merging pdf=20
>>>>>> documents and other pdf manipulations. We are facing issue while=20=

>>>>>> merging pdfs. Simplistically put the issue is as below-
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> 1.       Input: PDF1, PDF2. PDF2 is a PDF form with information =
filled information.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> would it be possible to upload a sample PDF1 and PDF2 to a public =
location?
>>>>>=20
>>>>> BR
>>>>> Maruan
>>>>>=20
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> 2.       Expected Output- A single merged PDF file with PDF2 =
pages appended to PDF1.
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>>>>>> 3.       The issue: PDFs are merged/appended but form information =
is not visible.
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> The visibility of fields is random. I'm using Acrobat Reader XI =
to see the merged pdf document. If I open same (merged) document over =
and again the number of populated fields I see change. This issue is =
reproducible with version 1.8.7 and 1.8.8 as well. If form field values =
are read again programmatically, all values are there intact and have =
correct value.
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> We are using org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFMergerUtility to merge the =
pdfs. To no surprise, the issue is also reproducible with =
org.apache.pdfbox.PDFMerger  as well (because, PDFMerger internally uses =
PDFMergerUtility).
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> Let us know how to fix this issue or anyone has any suggestions =
to get around the issue.
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Atul
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