That worked perfectly! Thanks a lot.
On 5/25/07, Bruno Lowagie (iText) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Abdullah Jibaly wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm trying to use iText to fill out an AcroForm. Everything seems to
> > work well using the code below except the field that has the text
> > filled into it becomes shifted down a couple pixels. If I open it up
> > in Acrobat afterwards (filled.pdf) and click back in that field it
> > shifts back up, and if I enter something and save the form it becomes
> > fixed again. Any ideas on whats going on?
>
> As strange as it may seem, the 'baseline' of the content of fields
> in an AcroForm has changed from Adobe (or Acrobat) Reader version
> to Adobe Reader version.
> iText creates an appearance for your field content assuming a specific
> baseline, but when you click/change the content, the appearance is
> created by Adobe Reader using the baseline as defined by that version.
> That's more or less what's going on.
> Now to work around this problem, try this:
>
> > PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("form.pdf");
> > PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new
> > FileOutputStream("filled.pdf"));
> > AcroFields form = stamper.getAcroFields();
> form.setExtraMargin(0, -2);
> > form.setField("dispatch_no", "ABCxYZ123");
> > stamper.close();
>
> -2 is an offset for the Y-coordinate in user units (1/72 inch).
> Experiment with it till you are satisfied with the result.
> Of course: when testing with other versions of Adobe Reader,
> the problem may resurface in the other direction...
>
> br,
> Bruno
>
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