I need an example of how this works. Looks like the problem is editing the pdf with form fields is not saveable to file. The pdf is sent out to end users, when they have edited/submitted I want a copy of that pdf so I can scrape the data out of it. How is this done? The end users won’t have acrobat to save a edited pdf. I was hoping to not have to write a website to handle this feature. Ideally I’d email the pdf and they would create an email and send it back with the filled in data attached. The private back end system can review/consume and scrape the data in house without having to create a public facing website. There is a 3rd party in the middle as in, wholesaler - broker - customer.
To test, I start with a blank pdf, programatically add a text field and submit button. But then how can I scrape the field data out of an edited pdf done by a user outside of the system? I created one test to create the pdf and then I show it and manually use adobe reader to try to save it to my harddrive in the temp dir, but then when I go to read it back up the data isn’t there.
#region Test003CreatePDFToEdit
[NUnit.Framework.Test]
public void Test003CreatePDFToEdit()
{
AsposeTotalLicense license = new AsposeTotalLicense();
Aspose.Pdf.Kit.License asposeLicense = new Aspose.Pdf.Kit.License();
asposeLicense.SetLicense(license.GetLicense());
string sourcePDF = “C:\Code\Skywalker\Tests\TestsNUnit\Templates\Blank.pdf”;
string destinationPDF = System.IO.Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetTempPath(), “Test003CreatePDFToEdit.pdf”);
string submitPDF = System.IO.Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetTempPath(), “Test003CreatePDFToEdit.pdf”);
Aspose.Pdf.Kit.FormEditor formEditor = new Aspose.Pdf.Kit.FormEditor(sourcePDF, destinationPDF);
Aspose.Pdf.Kit.FormFieldFacade facade = new Aspose.Pdf.Kit.FormFieldFacade();
formEditor.Facade = facade;
facade.BackgroudColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(240, 240, 255);
facade.BorderStyle = Aspose.Pdf.Kit.FormFieldFacade.BorderStyleBeveled;
formEditor.AddField(Aspose.Pdf.Kit.FieldType.Text, “Text1”, “”, 1, 200, 550, 300, 575);
formEditor.AddField(Aspose.Pdf.Kit.FieldType.PushButton, “Submit1”, “OK”, 1, 265, 695, 365, 720);
formEditor.ResetFacade();
formEditor.Save();
formEditor.SetSubmitUrl(“Submit1”, submitPDF);
formEditor.Save();
System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
process.StartInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(destinationPDF);
process.Start();
while (!process.HasExited)
{
System.Windows.Forms.Application.DoEvents();
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
}
}
#endregion
#region Test004LoadEditedPDF
[NUnit.Framework.Test]
public void Test004LoadEditedPDF()
{
AsposeTotalLicense license = new AsposeTotalLicense();
Aspose.Pdf.Kit.License asposeLicense = new Aspose.Pdf.Kit.License();
asposeLicense.SetLicense(license.GetLicense());
string submitPDF = System.IO.Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetTempPath(), “Test003CreatePDFToEdit.pdf”);
Aspose.Pdf.Kit.Form form = new Aspose.Pdf.Kit.Form(submitPDF);
string value = form.GetField(“Text1”);
NUnit.Framework.Assert.AreEqual(“XYZ”, value);
}
#endregion