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Re: [iText-questions] Tool recommendation to add form fields to existing PDF-Document?

Bruno Lowagie
Thu, 15 May 2008 04:03:38 -0700

Oliver Schoenwald wrote:
> I first tried to use our licensed Acrobat to add edit form fields into a 
> PDF document, but these form field seemed not to be fillable by Itext,

It depends. If you add widget annotations such as a TextField,
a button,... using Acrobat (and Acrobat ONLY), then you'll be
able to use those fields.

If you create a form using Designer (the separate application
that is started when you tell Acrobat you want to create a form),
you can run into problems (but recent iText version can fill out
static XFA forms, so your specific problem may have disappeared
by now).

> I would like to ask the community what tool(s) do you use to do what I 
> do. Or maybe someone uses the same tool like me but knows a better way 
> to accomplish it.

Word file: open it in Open Office, add fields, export to PDF form.
PDF: I believe JPedal has an example where you can view the PDF
and add fields in a GUI (and iText is used under the hood), but
I do this the old-fashioned way, with a ruler, measuring millimeters,
converting them to pts and PdfStamper.addAnnotation() to add the fields.

br,
Bruno

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