johniText wrote:
Hello,
I am using the convenience class, TextField, to create PdfFormField.
First I create the text field, then I set the text and the font, color, etc.
I made a small standalone sample and I can't reproduce the following
behavior:
But When I open the PDF file using Adobe reader, the font
of the text is NOT what I set in my java code. The weired thing is,
if I click the text field and do some change to it, say, add a
character, and leave the text field by
clicking anywhere in the PDF, then the font is set to what I set in
the java code.
I see "test Annotation" in Helvetica Bold Oblique (Italic) when
I open the resulting PDF. I also see only one font in the list
of fonts when I go to File > (Document) Properties > Fonts
The behavior you are describing occurs when the Default Appearance
for the text field is different from the appearance created by
Adobe Reader when changing the field. This puzzles me.
Could you run the attached example on your system, and send us
the PDF if it reproduces the problem for you.
This will allow us to find out if it's a Reader problem (maybe
some version of reader renders the DA the wrong way, however
that would surprise me) or if it's an iText problem (maybe an
old version of iText didn't create the DA correctly).
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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.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.Rectangle;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.TextField;
public class TextFieldTest {
public static final String RESULT = "textfield.pdf";
public static void main(String[] args) {
// step 1
Document document = new Document();
try {
// step 2
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
FileOutputStream(RESULT));
// step 3
document.open();
// step 4
TextField textfield = new TextField(writer, new
Rectangle(100,400,150,425), "testField");
textfield.setText("test Annotation");
textfield.setTextColor(Color.BLUE);
BaseFont bf =
BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA_BOLDOBLIQUE, BaseFont.WINANSI,
BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
textfield.setFont(bf);
textfield.setFontSize(12f);
textfield.setBackgroundColor(Color.lightGray);
textfield.setBackgroundColor(new Color(173, 216, 230));
textfield.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
textfield.setOptions(TextField.EDIT);
Chunk ck = new Chunk(" ");
ck.setFont(new Font(bf, 15f, Font.BOLDITALIC,
Color.white));
ck.setAnnotation(textfield.getTextField());
document.add(ck);
} catch (DocumentException de) {
System.err.println(de.getMessage());
} catch (IOException ioe) {
System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
}
// step 5
document.close();
}
}
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