Scribe reading Acrofields

[john renfrew]

Quick techy question

when you are returning Acrofield names from a PDF are you reading the Acrofields, as per iText examples or are you reading from the annotations.

I am looking at the plug in but it returns list in a different order to the function I have already written which would require changing some logic in the XML parse functions I use...

[shmert]

Scribe tries to return the field names in the order they appear in the document. There may be a discrepancy with the version of iText you're using, I seem to recall some older versions not sorting the field lists correctly. What version of itext are you using, and how are you getting the field list?

-Sam

[john renfrew]

5.0.5

as per the examples in the book

// NamesXFA(fm_FileIn, fm_FileOut)

// JR 05_03_10

// v1

// takes a PDF form and parses XML content



import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.*



out = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(fm_FileOut))

reader = new PdfReader(fm_FileIn)

form = reader.getAcroFields()

xfa = form.getXfa()

out.println(xfa.isXfaPresent() ? "XFA form" : "AcroForm")

fields = form.getFields().keySet()

for (String key : fields) {

    out.println(key)

}

out.flush()

out.close()

return true

this gives me a different result to ScribeDocListFields

[shmert]

Are the fields the same, but the order is different? This is likely because Scribe is using an older version of iTex, for licensing reasons.

[john renfrew]

Yes, same fields, different order. That's most likely solution Sam

I will try it out with an earlier iText jar that I have and let you know.