Here's my situation, I've inherited this project from a previous programmer
who's since left the company, so I'm stuck cleaning up the mess. I've got a
form the client developed in Word, putting in a bunch of _'s to indicate
where the form data was supposed to go. The want a web page that a user
fills out the fields, then the client is delivered a PDF filled in with the
user's information. What I've figured out so far is this. I've taken the
form in Word and converted it to a PDF. Then in my servlet, I read in said
PDF...
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("extern application.pdf");
PdfImportedPage page1 = a.getImportedPage(reader, 1);
PdfContentByte cb = a.getDirectContent();
cb.addTemplate(page1, 0,0);
>From here, I just want to take the form data and drop it on top of the PDF
I've read in. This was where the previous programmer left off. What I've
been trying to do is make a grid that I can, by hand, mark off the
coordinates that the form data should go.
By doing a loop of..
cb.setLineWidth(1);
cb.moveTo(document.left(), i);
cb.lineTo(document.right(), i);
cb.stroke();
and a loop of
cb.setLineWidth(1);
cb.moveTo(j, document.top());
cb.lineTo(j, document.bottom());
cb.stroke();
I've got my grid. From here the original programmer was going to just use
setSimpleColumn commands to place the text. But when I go to try that, the
coordinates from my grid are nowhere close to what they should be. I know I
could just figure out the difference and calculate the proper coordinates,
but I want to make sure my logic in all this is correct to begin with. I've
got a sinking suspicion that I'm completely way off base in trying to
accomplish this.
Chris
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