Exporting Form Fields to file changes value

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   I have a PDF document with several form fields in it.
I filled every field with a unique value 1,2,3,4....a,b,c,d,e using SetFormFieldValue and UpdateAppearanceStream functions. Afterwards i call SaveToFile.

In the written PDF file the values are wrong 2 fields are empty and several other contains same value, e.g. several formfields with 'c' or several with 'b'.

I inspected the PDF and there are many fields with same name, but i think QuickPDF should be able to handle them differently based on index instead of name anyway?

Also some fields are named with speciel letters like 'å' in "Fråndatum.", could this be an issue?

Best regards

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connerdk Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 07 Nov 14 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote connerdk Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Exporting Form Fields to file changes value Posted: 07 Nov 14 at 2:22PM
	I have a PDF document with several form fields in it. I filled every field with a unique value 1,2,3,4....a,b,c,d,e using SetFormFieldValue and UpdateAppearanceStream functions. Afterwards i call SaveToFile. In the written PDF file the values are wrong 2 fields are empty and several other contains same value, e.g. several formfields with 'c' or several with 'b'. I inspected the PDF and there are many fields with same name, but i think QuickPDF should be able to handle them differently based on index instead of name anyway? Also some fields are named with speciel letters like 'å' in "Fråndatum.", could this be an issue? Best regards

connerdk Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 07 Nov 14 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote connerdk Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 Nov 14 at 2:42PM
	hmm, adobe reader works the same way, if you edit a formfield with a named used by other form fields, then all are updated. I guess its not a bug, just up to me to loop and update all indexes that have same name as the field i am changing.