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  1. PDFBox
  2. PDFBOX-2333

Overhaul the appearance generation for PDF forms

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Critical
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 2.0.0
    • 2.0.0
    • AcroForm
    • None

    Description

      The appearance handling for forms in 1.x is limited and does not reflect all settings possible for form fields. In addition the current code is not very modular and does not follow the box model used for form fields.

      Unfortunately only the basics of form handling are defined in the PDF spec. The details like padding of boxes, text placement etc. have to be determined by looking at how Adobe forms are generated.

      Update: The file from PDFBOX-2310 has bad rendering which might be related?

      Attachments

        1. AcroForms-SimpleTextFields.1.8.7.pdf
          1.26 MB
          Maruan Sahyoun
        2. AcroForms-SimpleTextFields.1.8.7.png
          41 kB
          Maruan Sahyoun
        3. AcroForms-SimpleTextFields.pdf
          1.26 MB
          Maruan Sahyoun
        4. AlignmentTests-post1633495.pdf
          959 kB
          Maruan Sahyoun
        5. AlignmentTests-pre1633495.pdf
          959 kB
          Maruan Sahyoun
        6. MultilineTests-filled-post1677712.png
          40 kB
          Maruan Sahyoun
        7. MultilineTests-filled-pre1677712.png
          71 kB
          Maruan Sahyoun
        8. MultilineTests-prePatch.pdf
          970 kB
          Maruan Sahyoun

        Issue Links

          is depended upon by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-40 Font problem when setting form value

          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-283 Character encoding/appearance issues when filling forms

          • Critical - Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-101 ImportXFDF results in PDF with larger text fields

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-129 Error when setting the value of a combo box to " "

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-932 Swedish characters are garbled in form

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-1231 AcroForm appearance generator

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-1419 PDField.setValue is not behave correctly

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-1550 Helv vs. Helvetica font names cause PDField.setValue to fail

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-2062 Setting a PDFFormField's value with a specific font size causes the font size to change on click

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-206 Setfield is not working in Acrobat 7.0

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. PDFBOX-1402 Improve handling of multiline text boxes

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

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              msahyoun Maruan Sahyoun
              msahyoun Maruan Sahyoun
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