Using Adobe Acrobat Pro w/ PDFInc
| Project: | PDF Include project |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Hi All,
I have used open office to create a document, exported it to pdf and left blank areas where i wish to place 'Form Fields' from adobe acrobat pro. when blank the document works in PDFInc no problem when i add the form fields in then Save As... etc then try and use this document it kicks out an error about the page, see below:
The error returned = "pdf_use_PDF_page Invalid Page # for PDF ID = fs stream = spdf"
Here is the code i have used.
{ pdf_inc.i "THIS-PROCEDURE"}
DEFINE VARIABLE i_Counter AS INTEGER NO-UNDO.
RUN pdf_new ("Spdf","c:\testformfill.pdf").
RUN pdf_open_PDF("Spdf","c:\testform1.pdf","fs").
RUN DoNewPage.
RUN pdf_close("Spdf").
/* ------------------- INTERNAL PROCEDURES ------------------------- */
PROCEDURE DoNewPage:
RUN pdf_new_page("Spdf").
RUN pdf_use_PDF_page("Spdf","fs",1).
RUN pdf_fill_text("Spdf","Date","99/99/9999","").
END.
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#1
Hi
I suppose the latest versions of acrobat are not supported in pdfinclude.
I do not have this software to test myself, and it's been a while since nobody modified this part of the code.
Must be a problem in the parsing of the acrobat generated pdf file in pdfextract.p. Could you please send it to me? (I'd rather a patch to fix the issue ;-)
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#2
Hi,
The code i have used is in the original post. is there anything else i do to assist?
Thanks,
xscottehx
#3
yes, can you please create such an "invalid" document from acrobat and attach it to this page? I will try to see if there is an easy fix (don't promise anything though, very little time to dedicate at the moment)
#4
Here is the requested pdf with form fields created via acrobat pro.
Thanks for your help!
xscottehx
#5
Currently pdfinclude supports pdf 1.4.
before any deeper investigation I noticed that your pdf file is pdf 1.6, this would be a possibility. It does not have the 1.4 xref part at the end either, which could explain the problem.
I'm on vacation starting today, so I don't think I'll be able to have a look before october.
Can you please try to save as pdf 1.4 and tell us if that works? If not, then attach the 1.4 document here again?
Thanks in advance
#6
Hi,
Still no further forward when saving the document as version 1.4. I have attached this docuemnt.
I have only attached one form field for testing purposes.
Enjoy your Holiday, hope to hear from you when you return.
Thanks again,
xscottehx
#7
nice, I've fixed a small problem, and now my Progress 9.1E session crashes ;)
in LoadObjectPointers, pdf_extract.p:
IF INDEX(text-ptr,"~/Prev") > 0 THEN DO:
text-temp = TRIM(SUBSTR(text-ptr, INDEX(text-ptr,"~/Prev") + 5)).
text-temp = REPLACE(text-temp,"~/"," ").
text-temp = REPLACE(text-temp,">>",""). /* 14-JAN-2011 jcc: might happen ;) */
prev-ptr = INT(ENTRY(1,text-temp," ")).
add the line with the comment.
gonna investigate a little bit.
#8
Anyway the version I'm about to publish has support for forms generated directly with OpenOffice.org
You just have to open the from toolbar, add some fill-in, choose each fill-in name to match what you want, then export to pdf. I will put an example in the samples directory.
@xscottehx: might we close this one?
#9
The very last version I just uploaded (rev. 136) opens and processes correctly fstest.pdf, the form is filled. Can you please try with the full form, saved as pdf 1.4?