For that to work you'll have to call
AcroFields.setGenerateAppearances(false). Note that older Reader versions
don't generate appearances.
Paulo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Gonyea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:09 PM
Subject: [iText-questions] PDFStamper and AcroForm rich text (xml
formatting)
> Hi all,
>
> I've been asked to dive into the iText source in order to allow for the
> flattening of rich text fields on our PDF forms (currently, iText simply
> stamps the XML code into the field).
>
> Now one solution I thought of would be to simply use
> partialFormFlattening(fieldName) on fields not containing the rich text
> formatting, and then setting the rich text fields to "read-only" (via
> AcroFields.setFieldProperty(...)); however, this doesn't work - it still
> stamps the actual XML code onto the field and the Reader will not render
> it as rich text in the stamped PDF.
>
> Please visit the code I've written below and feel free to point out any
> errors/omissions I have made when trying to accomplish this, or if I'm
> failing to understand the usage of the methods outlined in the
> Documentation. (Please note, as suggested in some current iText archive
> articles, I've also attempted this with a call to setField(name,value)
> after the setFieldProperty() statement with the same results). I'm
> using the most recent SVN version of the iText source compiled via
> Eclipse 3.2.2.
>
> // Prepare FDF/PDF reader objects
> FdfReader inFDF = new FdfReader(inFDFFilename);
> PdfReader inPDF = new PdfReader(inPDFFilename);
>
> // create our stamper instance
> PdfStamper stp = new PdfStamper(inPDF, new
> FileOutputStream(outPDFFilename));
>
> // set form flattening flag
> stp.setFormFlattening(true);
>
> // Merge the FDF data into the PDF
> AcroFields af = stp.getAcroFields();
> af.setFields(inFDF);
>
> // Iterate through the list of fields
> HashMap hm = af.getFields();
> Iterator i = hm.keySet().iterator();
> while (i.hasNext()) {
> String fieldName = (String)i.next();
> String fieldData = af.getField(fieldName);
>
> if (fieldData.indexOf("<?xml") >= 0) {
> // System.out.println("xml data found in "+fieldName);
> // simply mark this field as "read-only" but keep
> everything intact
> // so that the client's Reader can render the
> XML/rich text formatting itself
> af.setFieldProperty(fieldName, "setfflags",
> PdfFormField.FF_READ_ONLY, null);
> // af.setField(fieldName, fieldData);
> } else {
> // this field can be flattened
> stp.partialFormFlattening(fieldName);
> }
> }
>
> // close the stamper
> stp.close();
>
>
> Thanks!
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