PDFops on Mythryl: “pypdf will silently leave a checkbox unchecked even after you set…”

pypdf will silently leave a checkbox unchecked even after you set its value, because checkbox state lives in two places (the field value and the widget's appearance state) and most code only sets one. Root cause and the two-line fix. #webdev

pdfops.devpypdf checkbox not checked — the actual fixWhy setting a checkbox field's value alone doesn't check it in pypdf.

14/10/26, 9:00 pm0 reposts1 like

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