Android Question PDFium does not show PDFBOX form fields

DonManfred

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• Friday at 12:26 PM

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You can not use PDFium for this.
You should open PDF documents containing Forms in Adobe Reader. AR supports Formfields als also saving the PDF after filling the form.

You can do both too with PDFBox (in B4J). Extracting .FDF-File, Adding a .FDF to an document and saved that as a new PDF.

 

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prajinpraveen

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• Friday at 12:36 PM

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Thank you for your quick response. I am able to extract and generate pdf using FDF file. works perfect.
I want to show the same pdf file on the android device.

 

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DonManfred

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• Friday at 1:47 PM

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What happens in PDFium? Got empty view/empty page?

 

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prajinpraveen

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• Friday at 1:53 PM

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The form displays correctly, but the content/values of the form fields are empty.

 

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DonManfred

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• Friday at 2:04 PM

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I guess this is something an uptodate pdf viewer should support and what adobe reader does.
PDFium does not have any references in the code regarding form and formfield. Also nothing about .FDF at all.

It is an old project btw.

I guess you have to find another way.

 

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prajinpraveen

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• Friday at 2:25 PM

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Thank you @DonManfred . Have a lovely weekend

 

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