PDF Tools

Overview

Contains multiple Smart Services and Functions for interacting with PDF Documents.

Key Features & Functionality

Smart Services:

Merge PDF - Merges multiple PDF documents into a single document.
Extract PDF Pages - Extracts a range of pages from an existing PDF into a new PDF.
Fill PDF - Populates the fields of a PDF Form and optionally flattens it disallow further changes.
Create PDF Content - Allows text to be added to a PDF with control over the style, position, and angle. An existing PDF can be updated or a new one created from scratch.
Convert PDF to Image - Creates an array of images or a multi-page tiff from a PDF.
Compress PDF - Compresses the images in the PDF to make it smaller.
Un-protect and Copy PDF - Using the document password, create an un-protected copy of a protected PDF.
Convert Image to PDF - Creates a PDF starting from one or many images. It also supports multi-page tiff images.
Encrypt PDF - Encrypts an existing PDF with a password.

Functions:

Get PDF Metadata - Retrieves metadata on the PDF: page count, title, author, security, encryption, etc.
Get PDF Text - Retrieves the text content from a PDF.
Get PDF Form Fields - Retrieves the populated form field values of an unflattened PDF.
Get PDF Signature Fields - Retrieves the populated signature field values of an unflattened PDF.
Get PDF Bookmarks - Retrieves the list of bookmarks and associated page number in the PDF

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Mike Schmitt over 4 years ago

I'm having an issue when using FillPDF to populate fields in a LiveCycle document. First I need to offer kudos that it works at all - the LiveCycle file format is pestersome and in my experience has been hard to work with.

My issue is pretty straightforward: when I fill in a field in-process, and view the resulting document either in the Appian preview field, or previewed directly within Chrome, the filled-in value appears seemingly correctly. But if I download the generated document and open in Adobe Reader, the field is apparently still empty. If I open the file in a text editor, I'm able to find the value that had been inserted... but when I enter the value directly in Adobe Reader then save, the desired value shows up in additional places within the binary (again, viewed within a text editor). I don't know what the exact issue is here, however it's preventing me from using Fill PDF to fulfill a use case of ours, which the older PDF from Template smart service fails at (in a worse way). If anyone's able to offer some insight into this, I'd appreciate it.
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Mike Schmitt over 4 years ago in reply to Mike Schmitt

Druva Kota just in case you see this..?
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Mike Schmitt over 3 years ago in reply to Michael Chirlin

Michael Chirlin - thanks, any chance Appian might come up with a remedy for this issue on the plug-in side?

FYI i didn't see your reply initially since Community apparently doesn't want to notify me for basic replies here.
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Michael Chirlin over 4 years ago in reply to Mike Schmitt

We are using the PDFBox library to insert the fields into the PDF.

You may be running into this issue:

stackoverflow.com/.../form-field-values-set-with-pdfbox-not-visible-in-adobe-reader
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Michael Chirlin over 4 years ago in reply to Mike Schmitt

We are using the PDFBox library to insert the fields into the PDF.

You may be running into this issue:

stackoverflow.com/.../form-field-values-set-with-pdfbox-not-visible-in-adobe-reader
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Mike Schmitt over 3 years ago in reply to Michael Chirlin

Michael Chirlin - thanks, any chance Appian might come up with a remedy for this issue on the plug-in side?

FYI i didn't see your reply initially since Community apparently doesn't want to notify me for basic replies here.
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