Abhishek Srivastava wrote:
Hello All,
In MS word we can define a template with bookmarks. When the word
document is opened, I can just search for the bookmark and assign some
text against the bookmark.
This makes generating documents pretty easy as I don’t have to write
pixel based insertion of text and images. I can just locate the
bookmark and assign a value to it.
Was just wondering can this be done in PDF and iText, create a PDF
template with these place holders, then just open the pdf document
using itext search for these bookmarks and assign them values and then
save the document.
Currently I am writing text in pixel mode, but its very complex
because I have to adjust the starting postion based on the length of
the string and size of the font.
Excuse me if you get this answer twice, I am working through an
enormous backlog of mail.
If you create a PDF with an AcroForm.
You can have text fields.
These field can be filled with String values very easy.
There's an example here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/20066/match=setfield
In the example, I even 'flatten' a field.
If you want the font size to adjust automatically so that
iText adjusts the text to fit into the field, define a text field
with font size zero.
If you want place holders for images, please take a look
at the example in this post:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/20873
br,
Bruno
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