iText can't grow the space, only Adobe's live cycle dynamic forms can do
it. To solve that in iText you'll have to create the PDF from scratch
each time, probably based in same XML template.
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Miguel Burnett
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 3:24 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] Creating new document from a pdf
> template thatcontains form fields as well as placeholder fields
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have seen a very comprehensive example of a very similar
> question/thread posted earlier (Jan 2007) entitled "Solution
> 1: creating new document where
> every page includes contents (text and form fields) from pdf
> template file
> ". The example was excellent but my situation has a slight twist.
>
> Scenario:
> I have a 4 page template. On "any" part of "any" one of those pages
> are form fields along side placeholder fields that will be
> replaced with dynamic content at runtime. e.g line 15 of
> page 2 may have a placeholder
> field; then starting at line 24 a static from field is positioned.
>
> My concern is that the dynamic content may require more space
> than is originally allotted thus possibly overlaying any
> data that is directly positioned after it.
>
> Question:
> After prefilling the form fields (stamper) by writing to a
> ByteArrayOutputStream AND I locate the placeholder field(s)
> and update the content at the given location(s) AND I
> substitute the placeholders with runtime data, how can I
> ensure that the content after the data is not wiped
> out/overlayed/overwritten? The runtime data may require more
> space than the placeholder occupies.
>
> Thanx much.
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