We've thought of writing directly over our PDF instead of using a field but the
part that doesn't feel right is we have to roll our own parser to parse some
html like string to add Phrases to the pdf. Is there a better way to add
dynamic html text that others have found to do this?
Our example
PdfReader basePdfReader = new PdfReader(new
ByteArrayInputStream(basePdf.getByteArray()));
ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(basePdfReader, output);
PdfContentByte content = stamper.getOverContent(1);
content.setFontAndSize(BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA,
BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.EMBEDDED), 10.0F);
ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(content);
ct.setSimpleColumn(10, 20, 100, 100);
// ------- Create something to Parse some html like string and add
Phrases
ct.addText(new Phrase("Some text should be ", new
Font(BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, BaseFont.WINANSI,
BaseFont.EMBEDDED))));
ct.addText(new Phrase("italic ", new
Font(BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.TIMES_ITALIC, BaseFont.WINANSI,
BaseFont.EMBEDDED))));
ct.addText(new Phrase("and other text to be ", new
Font(BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, BaseFont.WINANSI,
BaseFont.EMBEDDED))));
ct.addText(new Phrase("bold", new
Font(BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA_BOLD, BaseFont.WINANSI,
BaseFont.EMBEDDED))));
// -------
ct.go();
stamper.close();
return new ITextPdfForm(new
ByteArrayInputStream(output.toByteArray()));
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:20:25 -0500
From: Greg Orton
Subject: [iText-questions] Allow Rich Text Formatting in a field
To: "[email protected]"
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I'm trying to include rich text formatting in on a PDF text field so I can have
dynamic text with some words bold and italicized within the text. I am using
Acrobat to create my template.
For example: Some text should be <i>italic</i> and other text to be <b>bold</b>
I've found posts regarding iText not supporting this feature as of last year:
http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=16397594&framed=y
I also found a tutorial showing how to Create and change RichText form fields
http://www.crionics.com/tutorials/123-template_rtf_fields.html
How can I include rich text within a field without having the same formatting
on the entire field?
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