Cant fill field names with html escape characters

[LaithAzer]

Firstly thanks a lot for this gem. It has been great to use.

I have a form that I am trying to fill using pdftk, and some of the field names are as follows:

Other Tests – one test per line, Row 15 Other Tests – one test per line, Throat

Unfortunately I cannot change the field names and pdftk doesn't seem to be able to fill them out. I also tried escaping the string, typing the actual character (en dash), but no success.. All the other fields get filled in fine but these fields I cannot seem to fill in no matter what I try..

[jkraemer]

Please run pdftk your-template.pdf dump_data_fields. This should give you output like:

---
FieldType: Text
FieldName: caregiver_email
FieldFlags: 0
FieldJustification: Left
---
FieldType: Text
FieldName: screening_names_of_people_assisting
FieldFlags: 0
FieldJustification: Left
---

Whatever is written in the lines starting with FieldName: is what you have to use as field name when filling out the form. If this does not work I'd appreciate access to the form in question to look into this.

[LaithAzer]

Hi @jkraemer.

Those are the field names I get from running that command. I figured out a workaround by renaming the pdf fields since I have access to acrobat pro, but feel free to take a look at the form in case you can figure out the issue:

http://www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/GetAttachDocs/014-4422-84~1/$File/4422-84.pdf

[phoet]

i came accross the same issue:

---
FieldType: Text
FieldName: Straße Hausnummer
FieldNameAlt: Straße, Hausnummer
FieldFlags: 0
FieldJustification: Left

i worked around that by unescaping the entities @pdftk.get_field_names(@path).map { |name| CGI.unescapeHTML(name) }

[jkraemer]

Thanks, I added this to the README