I'm editing a PDF template with using pdftk
command = ("pdftk " + '"' +
template + '"' +
" fill_form " + '"' +
pathUser + user['mail'] + ".xfdf" + '"' +
" output " + '"' +
pathUser + user['mail'] + ".pdf" + '"' +
" need_appearances")
command = command.replace('/', '\\')
os.system(command)
First I'm writing my data in a .xfdf file
for key, value in user.items():
print(key, value)
fields.append(u"""<field name="%s"><value>%s</value></field>""" % (key, value))
tpl = u"""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xfdf xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/" xml:space="preserve">
<fields>
%s
</fields>
</xfdf>""" % "\n".join(fields)
f = open(pathUser + user['mail'] + '.xfdf', 'wb')
f.write(tpl.encode("utf-8"))
f.close()
I fetch the template and as shown above, write the data from the xfdf to pdf but for some reason, only the ime gets written.
Templates get fetched using some basic conditional logic as shown below:
for item in user['predavanja']:
user[acthead + str(actn)] = item
actn += 1
for item in user['radionice']:
user[acthead + str(actn)] = item
actn += 1
for item in user['izlet']:
user[acthead + str(actn)] = item
actn += 1
print(actn)
templates = {}
templates['0'] = "Template/2019/certificate_2019.pdf"
templates['5'] = "Template/2019/certificate_2019_5.pdf"
templates['10'] = "Template/2019/certificate_2019_10.pdf"
templates['15'] = "Template/2019/certificate_2019_15.pdf"
templates['20'] = "Template/2019/certificate_2019_20.pdf"
templates['25'] = "Template/2019/certificate_2019_25.pdf"
templates['30'] = "Template/2019/certificate_2019_30.pdf"
templates['35'] = "Template/2019/certificate_2019_35.pdf"
templates['40'] = "Template/2019/certificate_2019_40.pdf"
templates['45'] = "Template/2019/certificate_2019_45.pdf"
templates['50'] = "Template/2019/certificate_2019_50.pdf"
I'm writing this data
user['id'] = data['recommendations'][0]['role_in_team']['user']['id']
user['ime'] = data['recommendations'][0]['role_in_team']['user']['first_name']
user['prezime'] = data['recommendations'][0]['role_in_team']['user']['last_name']
user['tim'] = data['recommendations'][0]['role_in_team']['team']['short_name']
user['mail'] = data['recommendations'][0]['role_in_team']['user']['estudent_email']
user['puno_ime'] = (data['recommendations'][0]['role_in_team']['user']['first_name'] + ' ' +
data['recommendations'][0]['role_in_team']['user']['last_name'])
user['predavanja'] = predavanja
user['radionice'] = radionice
user['izlet'] = izlet
One note. predavanja, radionice and izlet are lists.
I've tried printing tpl which shows all the data being properly added to the scheme.
Turns out the issue was the naming of the variables since they didn't match the field names in the acroform PDF. So the solution was to rename the variables in the code to match the field names.