a preface to this question is probably necessary. I am relatively new to
iText, have relatively poor skills in mathematical abstraction and also
(probably for the same reason) have failed mind-reading 101. As a result
some of my questions are pedestrian and while the answer should be
obvious to me, it often is not.
Acrobat 7 and 8 make it difficult or impossible to create a form without
using the "Life Cycle Designer" which means that the forms become XFA
forms and there's nothing I can do about it. (Others are buying acrobat
and designing the forms - my job is to fill in the fields on the way to
the browser.
So far I have:
reader = new PdfReader("file.pdf");
XfaForm xf = new XfaForm(reader);
XmlNode node = xf.FindDatasetsNode("patientname");
node.InnerText = "Smith, Fred";
These are my questions.
1 - Is this a valid way to set the values of the data fields?
2 - Does SetNodeText do anything that this doesn't do?
3 - Assuming that I have gotten the data into the fields, how to I get
the filled form into the OutputStream of the HttpResponse object? (I
know that I should be able to figure this out but I really need an
example, because nothing that I have tried has come close to working.)
Thanks in advance,
Dan Essin
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