Hi, First I would like to thank Kishore for answering my question, but I think I did not state my problem clearly. So I am going to try one more time.
1. We have a predefined PDF form, with text fields in it. a. We used Adobe Acrobat Professional to create the PDF form. 2. The font set in the predefined fields are COURIER a. We choose COURIER because of its mono-spaced feature 3. We want to set the values in predefined form fields. So we used pdfbox 1. Load the pdf form 2. Set the value But the problem now is the original font got changed after setting the value. The link Kishore referenced is trying to create new field with font and place it on the pdf, but our requirement is setting values on existing fields and retain original font. The original files and tested file: http://www.2shared.com/document/auMD40In/PRP.html http://www.2shared.com/document/SdnqJEFO/forms26916.html The code: package lab; import java.io.File; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm; public class TestBed1 { public static void main(String[] args) { try { PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument.load("C:/Temp/pdf/PRP.pdf"); PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog(); PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm(); acroForm.getField("officeAfterHourAndTollFree").setValue( "Phone: (805) 777-7666 Fax: (805) 777-9876"); File file = File.createTempFile("forms", ".pdf"); pdfDocument.save(file.getCanonicalPath()); pdfDocument.close(); System.out.println(file.getCanonicalPath()); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } Regards, From: Kishore Babu [mailto:kb...@envistacorp.com] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 4:34 AM To: users@pdfbox.apache.org Subject: RE: Font being changed after form field is set Check the following links, may be helpful to set the fonts http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/pdfbox-users/201205.mbox/%3c71d208c6bcafaa419a4a9f7b58fa4d8212629...@hsmsx03.iheiler.com%3E http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8129451/write-text-into-ploygon-with-pdfbox [cid:image002.jpg@01CDA7D2.688F6090]<http://www.envistacorp.com/> Kishore Babu I Developer email: kb...@envistacorp.com<mailto:kb...@envistacorp.com> office: 040.66417681 www.envistacorp.com<http://www.envistacorp.com> Subscribe<http://pages.exacttarget.com/page.aspx?QS=472529ec60bdf32a36ac1f221ebc1706b66778f96833e451f77fe13f8e4cf0db> to enVista's Newsletter! [cid:image004.jpg@01CDA7D2.688F6090]<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/enVista/281494945342?ref=search> [cid:image006.jpg@01CDA7D2.688F6090] <http://twitter.com/enVistaSpplyChn> [cid:image008.jpg@01CDA7D2.688F6090] <http://www.linkedin.com/companies/envista> [cid:image010.jpg@01CDA7D2.688F6090]<http://www.inc.com/inc5000/profile/envista> From: Eugene Chang [mailto:ech...@bonafide.com] Sent: Wednesday, 10 October, 2012 8:38 PM To: users@pdfbox.apache.org<mailto:users@pdfbox.apache.org> Subject: RE: Font being changed after form field is set Sure, attached are the file. PRP.pdf is the original file with Courier font forms26916.pdf is the data populated form, and font got changed Actually I attached the two files in my original email, in case you cannot see the attached files, I have uploaded to a file sharing site, below are the links: http://www.2shared.com/document/auMD40In/PRP.html http://www.2shared.com/document/SdnqJEFO/forms26916.html Regards, From: Kishore Babu [mailto:kb...@envistacorp.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 6:13 AM To: users@pdfbox.apache.org<mailto:users@pdfbox.apache.org> Subject: RE: Font being changed after form field is set Could you please send the original pdf file? Regards, [cid:image001.jpg@01CDA717.188072D0]<http://www.envistacorp.com/> Kishore Babu I Developer email: kb...@envistacorp.com<mailto:kb...@envistacorp.com> office: 040.66417681 www.envistacorp.com<http://www.envistacorp.com> Subscribe<http://pages.exacttarget.com/page.aspx?QS=472529ec60bdf32a36ac1f221ebc1706b66778f96833e451f77fe13f8e4cf0db> to enVista's Newsletter! [cid:image002.jpg@01CDA717.188072D0]<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/enVista/281494945342?ref=search> [cid:image003.jpg@01CDA717.188072D0] <http://twitter.com/enVistaSpplyChn> [cid:image004.jpg@01CDA717.188072D0] <http://www.linkedin.com/companies/envista> [cid:image005.jpg@01CDA717.188072D0]<http://www.inc.com/inc5000/profile/envista> From: Eugene Chang [mailto:ech...@bonafide.com] Sent: Saturday, 06 October, 2012 1:57 AM To: users@pdfbox.apache.org<mailto:users@pdfbox.apache.org> Subject: Font being changed after form field is set Hi, We have encounter a problem when using pdfbox. We have a pdf form with fields and font set to Courier (please see attached pdf file PRP.pdf). After running the program below which tries to set the value of one of the fields, font was being changed to Helvetica (please see attached pdf file forms26916.pdf). Is there any way we can set the values and retain the original font? Regards, Eugene package lab; import java.io.File; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm; public class TestBed1 { public static void main(String[] args) { try { PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument.load("C:/Temp/pdf/PRP.pdf"); PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog(); PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm(); acroForm.getField("officeAfterHourAndTollFree").setValue( "Phone: (805) 777-7666 Fax: (805) 777-9876"); File file = File.createTempFile("forms", ".pdf"); pdfDocument.save(file.getCanonicalPath()); pdfDocument.close(); System.out.println(file.getCanonicalPath()); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }