Field values not encoded properly

Technical Support
1

PDF.js Express Version
7.0.1

Detailed description of issue
XFDF created by exporting annotations does not produce proper XML encoded field values.

Example xfdf string produced with invalid xml encoding:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xfdf xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/" xml:space="preserve"><fields><field name="FLD_CUSTOMER_BANK_NAME"><value>Test Bank & Trust</value></field></fields><annots /><pages><defmtx matrix="1,0,0,-1,0,792" /></pages></xfdf>

Notice & value in FLD_CUSTOMER_BANK_NAME value

Expected behaviour
Field values should have XML entities encoded properly so other XML parsers can consume the data.

Expected XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xfdf xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/" xml:space="preserve"><fields><field name="FLD_CUSTOMER_BANK_NAME"><value>Test Bank &amp; Trust</value></field></fields><annots /><pages><defmtx matrix="1,0,0,-1,0,792" /></pages></xfdf>

Does your issue happen with every document, or just one?
All documents

Link to document
n/a

Code snippet
viewer.viewerInstance.annotManager.exportAnnotations({ links: false, widgets: false }).then(function (x) {
console.log(“xfdf data=” + x);
});

2

Hi there,

We can not reproduce this issue on our end. Would you be able to send us the file you tested with?

Thanks!
Logan

3

My apologies, Logan.

It does appear that when getting the xfdf data from the document the field value are encoded properly. I guess there’s something else going on between the submission and recording of this data I need to track down.

Thanks for the reply.

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