Article - CS413728

PDF Form Field error "create_field: Invalid field pathname 'textField_0' (name 'textField_0' already exists)" when publishing to PDF from Arbortext Editor with Styler

Modified: 03-Jun-2024   


Applies To

  • PTC Arbortext Styler 8.0 to 8.2
  • PTC Arbortext Layout Developer 12.0 to 12.2

Description

  • PDF Form Field functionality on the Title Page does not work for text fields
  • A sample was built using the [EditorInstall]samples\APP\PDFFormFields sample shipped with Editor
  • The sample was tweaked to include a text field on the front cover as well as the text field in the main text steam
  • The following error occurs when printing to PDF:
ERROR: PDFlib Warnings: 
ERROR: create_field: Invalid field pathname 'textField_0' (name 'textField_0' already exists)
ERROR: PDF creation aborted 
ERROR: APP did not produce an output file.
ERROR: Failure post-processing for composer type pdf.
FATAL ERROR: Operation terminated.

 
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