placeholder-pdfkit stops the pdf stream emitting the "end" event about node-signpdf HOT 5 OPEN

@vbuch @dhensby
Hi,

I managed to get this working with pdfkit 0.14.0 by removing the form.end() statement (removing the whole foreach clause that .end()s all the refs after the pdfkitAddPlaceholder call)

While I am getting signed pdf-s out of it, I don't currently understand what's happening well enough to recommend this solution to others (hence no PR). It would be good if someone who knows the system could have a looks to see why this worked

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Yes, my attempts were based on the pdfkit010 example since the pdfkit >0.10 helper readme states "This works in an identical way to the pdfkit010 package and the pdfkit010.js example is still relevant."

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Hi,
I haven't really used placeholder-pdfkit. @dhensby would be best to reply here. But from what I see in the source signature and widget are already ended. Try to work around that maybe and only end the form. Ideally, once you have it working, share your code and even better prepare a PR to introduce a placeholder-pdfkit example.

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I'm actually using pdfmake and that uses @foliojs-fork/pdfkit instead of the actual pdfkit lib (probably because of all the problems that we've had previously with pdfkit. Their implementation of AcroForms really messed up integration and I don't recall if we ever got round to fixing it or not.

I guess that pdfkit no longer needs the .end() to be called and (if that's been taken from our examples) our examples may need updating!

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We just don't have a pdfkit example. We have the pdfkit010 ones and I'm guessing that's what @Dmitrijs-Sakovics here based his example on. The pdfkit010 is obviously a legacy one so... yes, an example using pdfkit > 10 is needed.

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