Hi,
I am facing an issue to append to a document. I have multiple pages that
hold both static and dynamic data at the end of the last page I need to
append filled W-4 form. The issue I am having is W-4 Form gets appended but
it does not retain the values basically a blank W-4 is appended. I even
tried to merge the document by reading filled W-4 document from the hard
drive but it never shows me the values. here is the code I have so:
ByteArrayOutputStream baosPDF1 = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
pdfwriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
FileOutputStream("C:/FinalFile.pdf"));
document.addCreationDate();
document.addProducer();
document.open();
document.newPage();
//the following method creates pages with static and dynamic data
getWelcomeNote(document);
//here I am reading a W-4 template and populating the values
PdfReader reader1 = new PdfReader("C:\\fw4_2010.pdf");
ByteArrayOutputStream baosPDF = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PdfStamper stamp = new PdfStamper(reader1, baosPDF,'\0',true);
AcroFields form = stamp.getAcroFields();
form.setField("f1_09(0)", firstname);
form.setField("f1_10(0)", lastname);
form.setField("f1_14(0)", address);
stamp.setFormFlattening(false);
stamp.close();
//here I am trying to append W-4 to the document
PdfContentByte cb = docWriter.getDirectContent();
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(baosPDF.toByteArray());
int pages = reader.getNumberOfPages();
int i = 0;
PdfImportedPage page;
while (i < pages) {
i++;
document.setPageSize(reader.getPageSizeWithRotation(i));
document.newPage();
// get page from reader
page = pdfwriter.getImportedPage(reader,i);
int rotation = reader.getPageRotation(i);
// think this for pages that aren't landscape
// adds actual page to output
if (rotation == 90 || rotation == 270) {
cb.addTemplate( page,0,-1f,1f,
0,0,reader.getPageSizeWithRotation(i).height());
} else {
cb.addTemplate(page, 1f, 0, 0,1f, 0, 0);
}
}
// creating a new reader automatically updates
reader = new PdfReader(baosPDF.toByteArray());
document.close();
but somehow it always append the blank W-4. For testing purpose I saved the
filled W-4 and then tried the following but it also does not show the filled
W-4 form rather a blank one is appended.
mergePDF(document, pdfwriter, "C:/filled-w4.pdf");
As I am creating PDF's in which i have to merge the filled W-4 forms also
but no success so far. As I really don't want to create a W-4 from scratch
and would rather like to fill the W-4 template and generate a PDF and then
merge it with the document.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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