[PDFBOX-962] All sort of Problems when importing Xfdf files into PDFs -> damaged pdfs and NPEs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.11, 2.0.0
• Component/s: Utilities
• Labels: acroform xfdf
• Environment: kubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, jvm 1.6.2
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Konstantinos Kostarellis
• Created: 14/Feb/11 14:06
• Updated: 18/Jan/16 12:01
• Resolved: 10/Jan/16 13:58

Description

When trying to merge PDFs with there corresponding XFDFs all sort of Problems occur.

I created different pdfs with form fields and a "sendbutton". (The Sendbutton triggers a send-action to
send the form data via POST-Request to a URL in the XFDF format).

Merging that xfdf data with the pdf worked only for the simplest most minimal Example: 1 Text-Input + Send Button.
In the other cases I experienced some of the following problems

• Missing checkbox
• NPE in importFDF (acroForm == null)
• Miss-rendered send-button (not working any longer: either URL damaged or document no send-able with strange Adobe message)

I tried doing the same with the evaluation Version of Aspose Pdf Kit for Java which worked fine in all of that cases.

I could provide examples of pdfs and and corresponding xfdf that show that faulty behavior