[PDFBOX-4233] Flatten does not work properly on field with type 0 font

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.10
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.14, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: AcroForm
• Environment: win10, JDK 1.8
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: rumburak
• Created: 29/May/18 16:39
• Updated: 28/Feb/19 17:45
• Resolved: 08/Feb/19 13:25

Description

Pdf form sampleform_filled.pdf contains one field called "txtField" with this content: "ěščřžýáíéúůóďťĚŠČŘŽÝÁÍÉÚŮÓĎŤ".  The font used in this field is "/F5"

when you run this code:

 

try {
 PDDocument sourcePdfForm = PDDocument.load(new File("sampleform_filled.pdf"));
 PDAcroForm acroForm = sourcePdfForm.getDocumentCatalog()
 .getAcroForm();

 acroForm.flatten();
 sourcePdfForm.save("sampleform_filled_flattened.pdf");
} catch (IOException e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
}

 

 

You will get sampleform_filled_flattened.pdf with empty or not visible content of the field.