Are you saying that  AcroFields.Item getTabOrder() does not take into 
account the Tab Key?

Regards,
Farooq

On 3/10/2011 3:40 PM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> What do you think that the tab order key does?  It only impacts what happens 
> when the user types a tab key.  It has NOTHING to do with programmatic or 
> other processing of the fields.
>
> Leonard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Umer Farooq [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:17 PM
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Itext Pages /Tabs key
>
> Using Acrobat 9.
>
> PDF attached... Initital fields created using Acrobat 8.2. I reset the /Tabs 
> to  /R on each page in itext...
> Opening the document back in Acrobat shows tab order by row... but it is 
> still on Annots.
>
> Also, I'm taking that once I set the tab order to row and if I read the 
> fields back in itext the fields be in the row order... but that is not the 
> case either.
>
> Regards,
> Farooq
>
>
> On 3/10/2011 1:27 PM, Mark Storer wrote:
>> That sounds like a PDF viewer bug.  What version of Acrobat are you
>> using to tab through the fields?
>>
>> And can we see the PDF?
>>
>> NOTE: /Tabs isn't inheritted, so putting it in a parent Pages object
>> won't work.  You're using "getPageN()" would lead me to believe that's
>> not the case, but what the heck.  We're shooting in the dark here
>> until we see the PDF.
>>
>> --Mark Storer
>>     Senior Software Engineer
>>     Cardiff.com
>>
>> import legalese.Disclaimer;
>> Disclaimer<Cardiff>   DisCard = null;
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: umer [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 6:29 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [iText-questions] Itext Pages /Tabs key
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have defined the /Tabs key on the page to be /R using iText
>>> (pdfReader, getPageN, put, then write using pdfStamper)...
>>> and when I open the PDF in acrobat it shows in the tab order as
>>> "order by row" however fields are still ordered by how they were
>>> added. Am I missing something to make this work.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Farooq
>>>
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