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POColdFusion CFPDFFORM does not populate PDF form fields
 

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    <p>I created a quick PDF file with two form fields, first name and last name (or FirstName and LastName), with a Submit button and used the following code to try to populate these fields in a new PDF file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;cfpdfform action="populate" source="#variables.AbsPath#\test.pdf"&gt; &lt;cfpdfformparam name="FirstName" value="foo" /&gt; &lt;cfpdfformparam name="LastName" value="bar" /&gt; &lt;/cfpdfform&gt; </code></pre> <p>However, I receive this error:</p> <pre><code>The system has attempted to use an undefined value, which usually indicates a programming error, either in your code or some system code. Null Pointers are another name for undefined values. Platform, Locale, and Platform Name must not be null </code></pre> <p>I tried reading the PDF file to make sure the form fields were correct using this and they are:</p> <pre><code>&lt;cfpdfform action="read" source="#variables.AbsPath#\test.pdf" result="fields" /&gt; &lt;cfdump var="#fields#"&gt; </code></pre> <p>The struct dumps out:</p> <pre><code>FirstName: [empty string] LastName: [empty string] Submit: [empty string] </code></pre> <p>I tried searching the Adobe docs and around some other sites, but can't find a solution for this error. I also tried adding a "destination" parameter to the cfpdfform tag in case it was needed, but got the same result. The PDF file does exist. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.</p> <p>UPDATED: Here is the stack trace:</p> <pre><code>java.lang.NullPointerException: Platform, Locale, and Platform Name must not be null at com.adobe.fontengine.fontmanagement.platform.PlatformFontDescription.&lt;init&gt;(Unknown Source) at com.adobe.fontengine.font.opentype.OpenTypeFont.getPlatformFontDescription(Unknown Source) at com.adobe.fontengine.font.FontImpl.getPlatformFontDescription(Unknown Source) at com.adobe.fontengine.font.FontImpl.getPlatformFontDescription(Unknown Source) at com.adobe.fontengine.fontmanagement.platform.PlatformFontResolverImpl.addFont(Unknown Source) at com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.core.fontset.impl.PDFFontSetImpl.addFont(Unknown Source) at com.adobe.internal.pdfm.util.FontSetBuilder.loadFontsPath(FontSetBuilder.java:418) at com.adobe.internal.pdfm.util.FontSetBuilder.loadSystemFonts(FontSetBuilder.java:346) at com.adobe.internal.pdfm.util.FontSetBuilder.makePDFFontSet(FontSetBuilder.java:239) at com.adobe.internal.pdfm.util.FontSetBuilder.getPdfFontSet(FontSetBuilder.java:93) at com.adobe.internal.pdfm.PDFM7Factory.getPdfFontSet(PDFM7Factory.java:97) at coldfusion.document.DocumentServiceImpl.getAssemblerFontSet(DocumentServiceImpl.java:512) at coldfusion.pdf.PDFForm.populateFields(PDFForm.java:292) at coldfusion.tagext.lang.PDFFormTag.doEndTag(PDFFormTag.java:347) at cfsubmit2ecfm1224790315.runPage(C:\ColdFusion\wwwroot\nVision\projects\test\pdfform\submit.cfm:9) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:231) at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:416) at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65) at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:381) at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48) at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40) at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:94) at coldfusion.filter.LicenseFilter.invoke(LicenseFilter.java:27) at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70) at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28) at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46) at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) at coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62) at coldfusion.filter.RequestThrottleFilter.invoke(RequestThrottleFilter.java:126) at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:200) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86) at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101) at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106) at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42) at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286) at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543) at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203) at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428) at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66) </code></pre>
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