Don't use PRAcroForm, ever. Use AcroFields. Only in 1.4.4 were XFA forms
supported.

Paulo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dmon" <o8livion@(protected)>
To: <itext-questions@(protected)>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 10:51 PM
Subject: [iText-questions] PRAcroForm.FieldInformation Names in
newerversions of PDF


>
> Hello all,
>
> We've recently tried using a newer government form in our Web Application,
> and it seems that iText is returning some weirdly formatted names when we
> retrieve the fieldname from the FieldInformation object using the
> getName()
> method. Right now we have a couple of issues:
> a) The field names before were "fieldName" now we are getting
> "F[0].P[0].fieldName[0]"
> b) The string returned is sorta-kinda like UTF-16, but it cannot be parsed
> properly as such because the period character is not a correct UTF-16
> character. If you get the field name and then do .getBytes() you can
> clearly
> see that it is not correct: [... , 0, 48, 0, 93, 46, ... ] ~= "0].", the
> 46
> should have an extra leading empty byte.
> c) iText is also inserting zero length non breaking spaces (\uFEFF)
> characters at strange places, namely at the beginning of the string and
> after each period.
>
> Please not that when I say "iText" I mean it very liberally and only
> because
> I don't know who else to blame... we <3 iText, we really do.
>
> It might be that we are using an old version (1.4.3), but I don't see how
> that could be related (I've tried looking through source code changes).
> Optimally, we would not like to upgrade to a new version since the code
> is
> already in production and we only need to support one new form. Right now
> we
> are dealing with these issues manually, but my guess is that there is
> something clearly amiss.
>
> Thank you,
> David


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