Of course, this won't work if you create and fill with iText only without going to Acrobat to create the missing appearances (and fields, for that matter).
Paulo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your questions about iText here" <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Using iText to generate an XFA form withImageFields > Actually, there is NO REASON to create ANYTHING in the PDF page > content itself - just leave that totally empty. (In fact, Acrobat > will be MUCH HAPPIER if you don't create anything) > > All you need to do is fill in the XFA XML chunks and you're all set. > This is true for both static and dynamic XFA. > > Leonard > > > On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Mark Storer wrote: > >> > I would like to programmatically generate an XFA form with >> > ImageField components. That is, form elements where images >> > can be rendered. I can do this manually using Adobe Designer, >> > but I want the form-generation to be driven by code. >> >> > Is this possible using iText ? If so, how ? >> >> In theory, yes... but you'll have to do the vast majority of the >> heavy lifting yourself. >> >> iText, as is, has high level APIs to get and set XFA field values. >> And that's it. >> >> You'd have to generate the XML yourself and add it to the >> appropriate place in the PDF. You could use the PdfFormField class >> to help you build the fields, but there's still quite a bit of work >> to be done. >> >> And if you want a /dynamic/ form, you're in for a whole new set of >> headaches. >> >> So you need to modify iText to allow you to write XFA, and then use >> the relatively low-level PDF objects to do the rest. >> >> Oh, and there's no such thing as a "NeedAppearances" flag in XFA >> forms, so you need to draw all your appearances in the appropriate >> places (values go in the annotation appearance dictionary, >> everything else goes into the page contents). >> >> And on and on. Structure, marked content, lions, tigers, and >> bears. Oh My. >> >> Yes, I have looked into implementing this... why do you ask? ;) >> --Mark Storer >> Senior Software Engineer >> Cardiff.com >> >> #include <disclaimer> >> typedef std::Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard; >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to >> share your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php? >> page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV________________________________ >> _______________ >> iText-questions mailing list >> iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >> Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
