Am 24.05.2012 12:03, schrieb KEILHOLZ Werner:
> I need to add editable text boxes (actual text boxes with a name, not
> just 'drawn' text boxes) to a PDF document generated by FOP.
>
> The xmlgraphics web site seems to suggest that this is possible using
> extensions, like in the example of adding JAVA script to open a
> search box (
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/design/extending.html ).
>
> I did some research and all discussions seem to say that this is
> 'impossible'. Didn't anyone ever implement such an extension? Is it
> not possible to create editable forms with FOP?
FOP can't produce editable text boxes in PDF directly. It could be done
using embedded JavaScript, but using a different tool line PDFBox or
iText to post process the PDF generated by FOP is much easier.
J.Pietschmann
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