Thanks Andreas. It helped a lot. By the way, do you happen to know any font that supports glyph for a checked checkbox?
Nishma -----Original Message----- From: Andreas L. Delmelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Checkbox in the pdf doc > -----Original Message----- > From: Nishma Jain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Does anybody know how to generate check boxes in the pdf > document? I have a > boolean data which I want to show as on or off checkbox just as HTML check > box. > Hi, There are several options: - use SVG to draw a checked and a non-checked box depending the boolean value - find a font that has glyphs for the related Unicode cp's (enough basic non-checked boxes, but the checked ones don't seem to be readily available in the basic fonts) As for myself, I mainly use the latter and my imagination --for example: the basic ZapfDingbats font supports a lot of empty checkboxes from which you can choose one, and for the 'checked' checkbox, you have a choice of many other symbols... Hope this helps! Cheers, Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
