> On 9 Sep 2016, at 15:15, Barry Neu <barry....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> The API docs for this method state an iterator is returned which "walks all
> fields in the field tree, in order”.
> Is the order left to right, top to bottom on the form .. I was hoping?
> I was hoping it was but ehe following code seems to prove otherwise.
It's not a visual order. It's simply the order in which the fields occur in the
field tree. This has no relation to where fields appear on the page.
-- John
> PDDocument pdDoc =
> getTemplate("http://localhost:8000/template/Template_MA_ABJ4580MAG5_EF_L70SS_v5.pdf
> <http://localhost:8000/template/Template_MA_ABJ4580MAG5_EF_L70SS_v5.pdf>");
> PDAcroForm pdAcroForm = pdDoc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
> Iterator<PDField> iter = pdAcroForm.getFieldIterator();
> while (iter.hasNext()) {
> PDField field = iter.next();
> String fieldName = field.getPartialName();
> System.out.println("field partial name: " + fieldName );
> }
>
> PDF in question is here: https://github.com/BarryNeu/shared
> <https://github.com/BarryNeu/shared>
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Barry
>
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