[PDFBOX-1002] Form field not rendered after being processed by pdfbox-1.1.0, wrong position of same field in pdfbox-1.5.0

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.9, 2.0.0
• Component/s: AcroForm
• Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
• Reporter: Remo Marti
• Created: 26/Apr/11 12:33
• Updated: 28/Mar/15 14:10
• Resolved: 03/Feb/15 23:52

Description

I have a pdf form that was created with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional. I feed the pdf into pdfbox and write it out again with

document= PDDocument.load(pdf);
document.save(pdf.getCanonicalPath());

I realized that a recently added form field within the pdf is not visible when I use pdfbox-1.1.0. When I use the current pdfbox-1.5.0, the field is visible, but has an incorrect position. The three pdf attachments illustrate the behavior.
Interestingly, pdfbox handles the pdf correctly, once I save the original pdf under a new file name. The "save as..." function in Acrobat Professional seems to perform some kind of compacting / clean-up within the pdf, which is also reflected by a smaller file size.

Thanks