PeterSlezak

Characters enclosed in parentheses denotes literal string (type of PDF object).

You need to modify /V and also appearance stream (indirect reference object specified by /AP). /V contains value of the field and /AP specify how to present it. PDF reference...

I used example pdf from #132 . Code below will add "im field_1 value" to the first text field. Please note that it's just a proof of concept rather than...

You're correct, the error is because no appearnace stream is associated with the field, but you've created it in a wrong way. You've just assigned and stream to AP dictionary....

Hi @jancoow, Share your code and pdf file if possible. Otherwise I cannot help you.

> All data for testing are in under link: > https://bostata.com/post/how_to_populate_fillable_pdfs_with_python/ > > Which field in PDF array need to by changed to get updated value to appear in new...

Hi @Efk3 I never needed non ASCII characters, but my suggestion would be to use \ddd sequence in literal string where ddd is octal character code; or you can try...

> @PeterSlezak Thanks so much for code snippet really helped me!! This is similar to ASCII question above but I have an address field and would like to have a...

Hi jancoow, Check the following post [How to Populate Fillable PDF's with Python](https://bostata.com/post/how_to_populate_fillable_pdfs_with_python/). It uses pdfrw to populate fields.

@plasticassius I find your code very useful I used it in my project, but I can imagine a cases when it failed (see below if you're interested). It don't handle...