I need to generate a multi-page PDF where each page is based upon a
specific template. I used
http://itext.ugent.be/articles/eid-pdf/test/BatchFormFill.java as a
reference.
It works, but only to an extent. My PDF template has fields such as
LANGUAGE_1, LANGUAGE_2, CELL_NUMBER_1, CELL_NUMBER_2 and so on.
The problem: All my fields are populated except for the most
right-most ones in my template. My template is in landscape-mode (A4)
so that may have something to do with it.
To find the coordinates for my field I used the following (apart from
this, my example is exactly the same as BatchFormFill as mentioned
above. Also note that my Document() object is also made to be in
landscape-mode):
for (int i = 0; i < keys.length; i++)
{
List<FieldPosition> positions = fields.getFieldPositions(keys[i]);
coordinates[i] = new Rectangle (
positions.get(0).position.getBottom(),
positions.get(0).position.getRight() + 5,
positions.get(0).position.getLeft(),
positions.get(0).position.getTop() + 5);
}
The reason I am using a List<FieldPosition>, is that the
getFieldsPositions() no longer returns a float[] as in the
BatchFormFill example. (The API must have changed at some point.)
Also note that I am using the strange order of "getBottom, getRight,
getLeft, getTop" to create the coordinate-Rectangle. I tried
"getLeft, getBottom, getRight, getTop" first but then nothing
displayed, so I went for this order.
My one field called "LANGUAGE_1" is found at coordinates: 354.334,
137.165, 21.555, 371.664 (LEFT_X, LEFT_Y, RIGHT_X, RIGHT_Y) and is
correctly populated. However, the field "CELL_NUMBER_1" is found at
496.645, 685.388, 605.778, 513.975 and subsequently is not shown at
all!
Note that I can easily populate all the fields with PdfStamper
(however this approach is not possible because the resulting PDF
becomes far too large), so I suspect there is either something wrong
with my field positions or something related to the setSimpleColumn()
approach. Please assist...
Kind regards,
Torbjorn (using latest iText)
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