Sadly, even the marked content is no help. MSWord's document structure is all but worthless... One might even say WORSE that worthless: It passes the "basic accessibility" check, but putting the radio buttons in images and several other Issues make that a LIE. EVERYTHING is marked as a <P> (paragraph), including line art for form fields. Ugh.
Bad developers. Bad! No biscuit. --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com import legalese.Disclaimer; Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null; > -----Original Message----- > From: 1T3XT info [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1:42 AM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] No Fields in Pdf add content > > On 14/09/2010 10:27, beven wrote: > > > > Exaclty, This is my problem. I have to find the text in the pdf and > > there coordinates too. After that by some offset to the text > > coordinates i will add textfield or checkbox etc through > stamper and > > the pdf will become editable. > > Ouch... > > > Now i have done all the parts except the difficult one ---> > finding > > the coordinates of text ! > > You can find the text using the classes in the parser > package, but some words will never be found. > > Open your PDF in Adobe Reader and search for the word "Married". > Adobe Reader tells you the word isn't in the PDF, yet you can > see that word as one of the radio button options. > The word isn't seen by Adobe Reader (nor by iText) because it > was created as a raster image, NOT as text. > > Experimenting with the parser package (read chapter 15 of the > second edition of "iText in Action" for more info) could > result in a solution, but don't complain if it's too hard to > implement, because you're doing something that is close to impossible. > > For instance: you won't be able to replace the radio buttons, > you'll only be able to "cover" them. > > > There will be alot of Pdf's so manually adding the > interactive fields > > is not feasible. > > Then rethink your complete design, because you're at a dead end. > You should create the document WITH fields, not create the > documents and then add fields afterward. > > > 1 point is that the fields name will be fixed in all the > pdf's. i mean > > that all the pdf's will contain the Name, Address, Marital > status etc. > > > > Now, my question is : Am i following the right approach ? > > No. > > > If yes, then are > > there any code available on the net to do this or any other library > > that supports this. (I have done alot of googling but all > in vain :( ) > > There's a reason why you have been Googling in vain: > your design is all wrong. > > > If no, then what approach should i follow. > > Thanx in advance. (I am new to iTextSharp so sorry if any > of my logic > > is stupid :)) > > The problem isn't as much that you don't know iTextSharp, the > main problem is that you don't know PDF :( > -- > This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA > http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the > site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the > keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3131 - Release > Date: 09/13/10 11:35:00 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
