[iText-questions] ColumnText

[Merlyn Mathias]

Hi Paulo,

 

I have a fixed size PDF form and I use PDFStamper to populate the fields. The document has 15 pages. There are couple of fields which span multiple pages. In the PDF I have named the fields as name.1, name.2, name.3 etc. If the contents should continue from name.1 to name.2 and name.3. I have the following code:

 

public void checkMultiplePageSpan(AcroFields form, String name, String value, PdfStamper stamper) throws DocumentException, IOException
  {
      int i = 1;
      String field = name + "." + i;            
           
   // Point it to page 1
    PdfContentByte cb = stamper.getOverContent(1);        
     ColumnText text = new ColumnText(cb);
     text.addText(new Phrase(value, FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.COURIER, 12, Font.NORMAL)));
     
      
       do
       {
          AcroFields.Item item = form.getFieldItem(field);
                 
          if (item != null)
          { 
              int pageN =  ((Integer)item.page.get(0)).intValue();
              float[] position = form.getFieldPositions(field);
              

  // Here I need to specify which page the contents should be written

           

          text.setSimpleColumn(position[1], position[2], position[3], position[4]);
              field = name + "." + (++i); 
          }
          else
          {
              break;
          }
        }             
        while ((text.go() & ColumnText.NO_MORE_TEXT) == 0);  
     
  }

Now the question is, how do I move to the specific page every time, using the same columntext.?

 

If this is not possible, is there any other way I can achieve this?

 

Thank you very much.

Merlyn.

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