maximum.software

Hi,

I’ve implemented a fix to allow for CF7 v5.4 support for PDF email attachment.

You can download and try it out at the following URL:
https://github.com/maximum-software/pdf-forms-for-contact-form-7/archive/b61fa0b1e9ea54ffccd2e8d2771e63cf147ba7ea.zip

I request users do some testing and let me know if there are any issues.

Thanks.

That’s right, the new version of the plugin (1.3.5) only fixed the crash that occurs with CF7 v5.4 and one other issue. I did see that there is an issue with the download link. The PDF attachments to email messages still don’t work if you have CF7 v5.4. We are working on fixes.

The problem is with many PDF viewers not rendering those properly and my current software stack not handling this issue. The characters do in fact get filled into the PDF, however, there is an issue with the field’s appearance stream. Simple PDF viewers (such as web browsers) don’t have the code to work around the issue, so, those characters don’t render properly. If you were to open the filled PDF file with a more professional PDF software then you would see that they render the filled data correctly.

You may be able fix the problem by fully embedding the font used in the fields into your PDF, making sure that it contains glyphs for all of your characters. Unfortunately, that my not always work.

I am working on a solution to fix this issue. I plan to have something available for testing soon.

I’m working on a fix, however, I haven’t gotten it to work yet. I’ll post here when I have something.

I can reproduce the problem:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to private method WPCF7_Submission::add_uploaded_file() from context 'WPCF7_Pdf_Forms' in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/pdf-forms-for-contact-form-7/pdf-forms-for-contact-form-7.php:968
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(287): WPCF7_Pdf_Forms->fill_and_attach_pdfs(Object(WPCF7_ContactForm), false, Object(WPCF7_Submission))
#1 /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(311): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array)
#2 /var/www/html/wp-includes/plugin.php(551): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
#3 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/submission.php(457): do_action_ref_array('wpcf7_before_se...', Array)
#4 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/submission.php(80): WPCF7_Submission->before_send_mail()
#5 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/submission.php(24): WPCF7_Submission->proceed()
#6 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/contact-form.php(763): WPCF7_Submission::get_instance(Object(WPCF7_Contact in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/pdf-forms-for-contact-form-7/pdf-forms-for-contact-form-7.php on line 968

Please downgrade to the previous version of Contact Form 7. I will try to come up with a fix as soon as possible.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by maximum.software.

Hi,

I am pretty sure that Arabic text does get filled into the fields. The problem is that a lot of PDF viewers don’t render form data correctly. There are a lot of different kinds of bugs. What you are experiencing is one such bug.

There is a workaround. It requires that the PDF software that fills in the form generate an ‘appearance value’ for the form field. Unfortunately, my current software stack does not do this.

I am working on switching to a different software stack that does generate the appearance value for the forms, however, the new version is not ready for use yet.

Unfortunately, there is no fix for your issue at the moment. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you.

Hi,

Do you actually have a folder called “%5Bid%5D” and a file called “%5Bfile-name%5D”? If so, there is some sort of bug somewhere.

I am assuming your ID is random numbers and file-name contains some random numbers.

Most web servers are configured with directory indexes turned off. Unless you have some other way that the public can find out your ID and file name, it would not be possible for the public to know the URL to download the file.

Make sure you have directory indexes turned off for wpcf7-submissions.

Let me know if that helps or not.