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Subject: Re: Empty array when getting acroforms
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:36:37 -0000
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Hi Maruan. You can download them from here:
http://dropmefiles.com/TmVIu

On 2016-09-21 13:37 (+0300), Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de> wrote: 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> > Am 21.09.2016 um 11:14 schrieb Andrew Bogdanov <abogdanov@accusoft.com>:
> > 
> > Hi, Maruan. I'm attaching an original document (which is processed correctly) and merged one.
> 
> as attachments are not allowed on that mailing list they didn't make it through. Could you upload them to a public location?
> 
> BR
> Maruan
> 
> 
> > 
> > On 2016-09-19 17:03 (+0300), Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de> wrote: 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > Am 19.09.2016 um 15:52 schrieb abogdanov@accusoft.com:
> > > > 
> > > > But why then Acrobat DC renders those fields correctly in the same document?
> > > > By going back to merging, is there a way to tell that document was merged from other documents or not? Does PDFBox treat them differently? 
> > > 
> > > would it be possible to upload pdf before and after merging to take a look?
> > > 
> > > Acrobat treates annotations which also have a Widget entry in their dictionary as form fields although there is no AcroForm entry. If that is really the case here that would be a potential improvement to PDFBox to behave the same. It's long ago that I've seen such a document still being used tough.
> > > 
> > > BR
> > > Maruan
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On 2016-09-16 18:54 (+0300), Tilman Hausherr <THausherr@t-online.de> wrote: 
> > > >> Am 16.09.2016 um 17:04 schrieb Andrew Bogdanov:
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> Hi. I'm trying to retrieve an Acroform data of the PDF by using this code:
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> COSArray fields = 
> > > >>> (COSArray)this.acroForm.getDictionaryObject(COSName.getPDFName("Fields"));
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> As a result I have got empty array, but this doc for sure have may 
> > > >>> filed inside, if I open this doc through the console using
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> java -jar pdfbox-app-2.0.2.jsr PDFReader document_name.pdf
> > > >>> I am able to see all fields, please see attach
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> I noticed that such behavior is always happening when I'm trying to 
> > > >>> open document that was merged from several documents in Acrobat DC
> > > >>> 
> > > >> 
> > > >> What you saw are widget annotations. But your acroform array is indeed 
> > > >> empty, so you have no fields. So go back to the last step, i.e. the merging.
> > > >> 
> > > >> Tilman
> > > >> 
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