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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