Not finding fillable fields

[oliveryasuna]

What were you trying to do?

My goal was to fill a PDF.

For the sake of this issue, I will reduce to scope to simply finding a field.

How did you attempt to do it?

BC-WasteForm.pdf

If you open this PDF in Adobe Acrobat, you can clearly see that the field, TransporterTrailer2Province, exists:

Furthermore, macOS Preview and a bunch of online PDF form fillers do identify this field.

If you run the following code, you should expect it to show in the table:

const document: PDFDocument = (await PDFDocument.load(fs.readFileSync('...')));
const form: PDFForm = document.getForm();

console.table(form.getFields()
    .map((field: PDFField) => ({
      name: field.getName(),
      type: field.constructor.name
    })));

What actually happened?

For some reason, TransporterTrailer2Province, is not listed in the table.

We can simplify the code to produce the issue:

const document: PDFDocument = (await PDFDocument.load(fs.readFileSync('...')));
const form: PDFForm = document.getForm();

form.getField('TransporterTrailer2Province');

Error: PDFDocument has no form field with the name "TransporterTrailer2Province"

What did you expect to happen?

I expected pdf-lib to find the field.

How can we reproduce the issue?

Please see above...

Note that I have tested this when ran in Node (through Vitest) and in the browser.

Version

1.17.1

What environment are you running pdf-lib in?

Browser, Node

Checklist

• My report includes a Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable) Example.
• I have attached all PDFs, images, and other files needed to run my SSCCE.

Additional Notes

Thank you very much for your time!

[dev01prishusoft]

Hello, I have same issue is there any update on this ?

[Monkeytactics]

I have this issue too. In my case 95 of 250 form fields are not identifiable by PDFLIB, yet found using other tools.