I have been having trouble in placing the text field where I want. The text
field is always coming in the top location. How would i specify the co
ordinates on the document. Please let me know.
I am developing everything using table, cell ..etc
here is my code
Thanks
Prasad
//package com.pdf.helper;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.lowagie.text.Chunk;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Element;
import com.lowagie.text.Font;
import com.lowagie.text.FontFactory;
import com.lowagie.text.HeaderFooter ;
import com.lowagie.text.PageSize;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.Phrase;
import com.lowagie.text.Rectangle;
import com.lowagie.text.SimpleCell;
import com.lowagie.text.SimpleTable ;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.ColumnText;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.GrayColor;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.MultiColumnText;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfAction;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfAnnotation;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfAppearance;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfBorderDictionary;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfFormField ;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPageLabels;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.TextField;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.events.FieldPositioningEvents;
public class GeneratePDF3 {
Document document = null;
PdfWriter writer=null;
final Font font =FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA ,
Font.DEFAULTSIZE, Font.UNDERLINE);
final Font fonts0 = new Font(Font.COURIER, 8, Font.NORMAL);
final Font fonts1 = new Font(Font.COURIER, 9, Font.NORMAL);
final Font fonts1b = new Font(Font.COURIER , 9, Font.BOLD);
final Font fonts2 = new Font(Font.COURIER, 7, Font.NORMAL);
final Font fonts3 = new Font(Font.COURIER, 6, Font.NORMAL);
final Font fonts2b = new Font(Font.COURIER, 6, Font.BOLD);
public void createPdf() {
// step 1: creation of a document-object
document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
try {
// step 2:
writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
new FileOutputStream("c:\\temp\\b.pdf"));
// step 3: we open the document
HeaderFooter header = new HeaderFooter(new Phrase(" header
",fonts2),false);
header.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
header.setBorder(0);
document.setHeader(header);
HeaderFooter footer = new HeaderFooter(new Phrase("
footer ",fonts2),false);
footer.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
footer.setBorder(0);
document.setFooter(footer);
document.open();
document.newPage();
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(4);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.setColspan(3);
cell.addElement(new Paragraph(" one \n",fonts2));
cell.addElement(new Paragraph(" two \n", fonts2));
cell.addElement(new Paragraph(" three \n",fonts1b));
table.addCell(cell);
cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.addElement(new Paragraph("DATE\n",fonts2));
table.addCell(cell);
document.add(table);
table=new PdfPTable(1);
cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.addElement(new Paragraph("
IDENTIFICATION\n",fonts1b));
table.addCell(cell);
document.add(table);
// step 4:
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA,
BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent ();
cb.beginText();
cb.setFontAndSize(bf, 10);
cb.moveText(36f, 788);
cb.showText("Hello");
cb.endText();
TextField tf = new TextField(writer, new Rectangle(68,785,
340,800), "Who");
tf.setBorderWidth(1);
tf.setBorderColor(Color.gray);
tf.setFontSize(12);
tf.setFont(bf);
tf.setMaxCharacterLength(65);
writer.addAnnotation (tf.getTextField());
} catch (DocumentException de) {
System.err.println(de.getMessage());
} catch (IOException ioe) {
System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
}
// step 5: we close the document
document.close();
writer.close();
}
}
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