Reset form fields

This command resets form fields to their default value. Either supply a list of form field ids taken from the output of pdfcpu form list or skip field ids in order to reset the whole form.

The default value needs to be defined during form creation. If the form field’s default value is undefined the field’s current value is deleted for date fields and text fields and checkboxes will be unchecked. For radio button groups, comboboxes and listboxes the current selection is cleared.

Have a look at some examples.

Usage

pdfcpu form reset inFile [outFile] [fieldID|fieldName]...

Common Flags

name	description	values
v(erbose)	turn on logging
vv	verbose logging
q(uiet)	quiet mode
-o(ffline)	disable http traffic
c(onf)	config dir	$path, disable
opw	owner password
upw	user password
u(nit)	display unit	po(ints),in(ches),cm,mm

Arguments

name	description	required
inFile	PDF input file containing form	yes
outFile	PDF output file for dry runs	no
fieldID	form field id	no
fieldName	form field name	no

Examples

Reset the fields with name firstName1 and lastName1:

$ pdfcpu form list english.pdf

english.pdf
Pg L Field     │ Id | Name       │ Default          │ Value                    │ Options
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 1   Textfield │ 30 | firstName1 │ Joe              │ Jackie                   │
     Textfield │ 31 | lastName1  │ Doeby            │ Doe                      │
     Datefield │ 32 | dob1       │ 01.01.2000       │ 31.12.1999               │
     RadioBGr. │ 33 | gender1    │ male             │ non-binary               │ female,male,non-binary
     ListBox   │ 34 | city11     │ Vienna,São Paulo │ San Francisco,Vienna     │ San Francisco,São Paulo,Vienna
     ComboBox  │ 35 | city12     │ San Francisco    │ Sidney                   │ London,San Francisco,Sidney
     CheckBox  │ 36 | cb11       │                  │ Yes                      │
     Textfield │ 37 | note1      │                  │ This is a sample text.\n │

$ pdfcpu form reset english.pdf firstName1 lastName1

english.pdf
Pg L Field     │ Id | Name       │ Default          │ Value                    │ Options
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 1   Textfield │ 30 | firstName1 │ Joe              │ Joe                      │
     Textfield │ 31 | lastName1  │ Doeby            │ Doeby                    │
     Datefield │ 32 | dob1       │ 01.01.2000       │ 31.12.1999               │
     RadioBGr. │ 33 | gender1    │ male             │ non-binary               │ female,male,non-binary
     ListBox   │ 34 | city11     │ Vienna,São Paulo │ San Francisco,Vienna     │ San Francisco,São Paulo,Vienna
     ComboBox  │ 35 | city12     │ San Francisco    │ Sidney                   │ London,San Francisco,Sidney
     CheckBox  │ 36 | cb11       │                  │ Yes                      │
     Textfield │ 37 | note1      │                  │ This is a sample text.\n │

Reset the whole form in engish.pdf:

$ pdfcpu form reset english.pdf

english.pdf
Pg L Field     │ Id | Name       │ Default          │ Value                    │ Options
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 1   Textfield │ 30 | firstName1 │ Joe              │ Joe                      │
     Textfield │ 31 | lastName1  │ Doeby            │ Doeby                    │
     Datefield │ 32 | dob1       │ 01.01.2000       │ 01.01.2000               │
     RadioBGr. │ 33 | gender1    │ male             │ male                     │ female,male,non-binary
     ListBox   │ 34 | city11     │ Vienna,São Paulo │ Vienna,São Paulo         │ San Francisco,São Paulo,Vienna
     ComboBox  │ 35 | city12     │ San Francisco    │ San Francisco            │ London,San Francisco,Sidney
     CheckBox  │ 36 | cb11       │                  │ No                       │
     Textfield │ 37 | note1      │                  │                          │