Re: Filling PDF Form Checkboxes

follwing code works for me though there is an error message "Unknown resource key 'Encoding' in form field dictionary at /usr/local/share/perl/5.26.1/CAM/PDF.pm line 2914."

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
        use strict;
        use CAM::PDF;
       my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new('tenant.pdf') or die "Could not open PD
+F ($!)!";
my @fields = $pdf->getFormFieldList();
foreach my $field ( @fields ) {
    if ($field =~ /Female/) {
        my $ff_obj    = $pdf->getFormField($field);

        $ff_obj->{value}->{value}->{AS}->{value} = "On";
    }
    else {
        $pdf->fillFormFields($field => $field);
    }
}
$pdf->cleanoutput('afilled.pdf');
[download]

Comment on Re: Filling PDF Form Checkboxes Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: Filling PDF Form Checkboxes by Anonymous Monk on Aug 03, 2020 at 18:20 UTC
Upon further research on the checkbox issue, I just realized that {AS}->{value} is where you can control the option In the same PDF file that I worked in above instance, there is another kind of check box in the dictionary that is using indirectObject which points to a parent dictionary which has {AS}->{value}. In this instance {AS}->{value} was set "Off" initially but I had to use {D}->{value} which is inside of the same parent dictionary to set {AS}->{value} to turn check box on,in my case, it is "Yes_2", that is {AS}-{value}="Yes_2"	[reply]
Re^2: Filling PDF Form Checkboxes by Anonymous Monk on Jul 29, 2020 at 15:12 UTC
I have used following improved code to mark my checkbox in pdf `#!/usr/bin/perl -w` `use strict;` `use CAM::PDF;` `my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new('tenant.pdf') or die "Could not open PDF ($!)!";` `$pdf->getFormFieldList();` `my $field ="Female";` `my $ff_obj = $pdf->getFormField($field);` `$ff_obj->{value}->{value}->{AS}->{value} = "On";` `$pdf->cleanoutput('afilled.pdf');`	[reply] [d/l] [select]


P is for Practical
	PerlMonks