Maybe you can help me with one additional thing... I want to set the field as "Hidden, but printable" but none of the built-in methods seem to do that. I've trying various combinations of setInvisible, setHidden, setPrinted and setToggleNoView, but they didn't work. Any ideas how to achieve that?
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Gilad Denneboom <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the tip! > > I got it to work, but not by using the COSDictionary object, which didn't > see to "take". My final code is this: > > PDTextField bottledOnField = new PDTextField(acroForm); > String defaultAppearanceString = "/Helv 12 Tf 0 0 1 rg"; > bottledOnField.setDefaultAppearance(defaultAppearanceString); > bottledOnField.setPartialName("BottledOn"); > acroForm.getFields().add(bottledOnField); > > PDAnnotationWidget bottledOnWidget = bottledOnField.getWidgets(). > get(0); > bottledOnWidget.setRectangle(new PDRectangle(bottledOnX, > bottledOnY, bottledOnW, bottledOnH)); > bottledOnWidget.setHidden(false); > bottledOnWidget.setPrinted(true); > bottledOnField.setQ(1); // set alignment to "center" > bottledOnField.setReadOnly(true); > bottledOnWidget.setPage(p); > p.getAnnotations().add(bottledOnField.getWidgets().get(0)); > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> you are missing to add the field to the AcroForm. Please take a look at >> >> https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/examples/src/main >> /java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/CreateSimp >> leForm.java?view=markup >> >> If that doesn't work for you let me know and I'll enhance the sample. >> >> BR >> Maruan >> >> > Am 24.02.2017 um 17:26 schrieb Gilad Denneboom < >> [email protected]>: >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I'm in the process of moving from PDFBox 1.x to 2.x, but have >> encountered >> > an issue that I hope you could help me with. >> > One of my requirements in various projects is to add new form fields to >> a >> > file. >> > In PDFBox 1.x I would do this by generating a COSDictionary object which >> > contained all the basic field properties (type, value, rect, font size, >> > text color, etc.), and would then use it to generate a new PDTextbox >> object >> > (for example), which I would then add the page's annotation list. And >> here >> > is my problem. In PDFBox 2.x the constructor for PDTextField no longer >> > accepts the COSDictionary as its second parameter, only a PDAcroForm as >> its >> > first. So how am I supposed to generate a new field? >> > Then I noticed that the PDAnnotationWidget constructor can now take a >> > COSDictionary object as its parameter, so I tried that, but it doesn't >> > work... No field is added. >> > Here's my my code (the coordinates might be off, but it should still add >> > something, I think...): >> > >> > originalDoc = PDDocument.load(new File(outputFilePath)); >> > PDAcroForm acroForm = new PDAcroForm(originalDoc); >> > p = originalDoc.getPage(0); >> > float bottledOnX = inch * 2.375f; >> > float bottledOnY = inch * 0.032f; >> > float bottledOnW = inch * 0.257f; >> > float bottledOnH = inch * 0.231f; >> > COSDictionary bottledOnFieldDic = createTextField("BottledOn", >> > "TEST", new float[] {bottledOnX, bottledOnY, bottledOnX+bottledOnW, >> > bottledOnY+bottledOnH}, "50", 1); >> > PDTextField bottledOnField = new PDTextField(acroForm); >> > PDAnnotationWidget bottledOnWidget = new >> > PDAnnotationWidget(bottledOnFieldDic); >> > bottledOnWidget.setHidden(false); >> > bottledOnWidget.setPrinted(true); >> > bottledOnField.getWidgets().set(0, bottledOnWidget); >> > bottledOnField.setQ(1); // set alignment to "center" >> > bottledOnField.setReadOnly(true); >> > p.getAnnotations().add(bottledOnField.getWidgets().get(0)); >> > originalDoc.save(outputFilePath); >> > originalDoc.close(); >> > >> > private static COSDictionary createTextField(String fieldName, String >> > value, float[] rect, String fontSize, int textColor) { >> > COSDictionary cosDict = new COSDictionary(); >> > COSArray rectCosArray = new COSArray(); >> > rectCosArray.add(new COSFloat(rect[0])); // lower x boundary >> > rectCosArray.add(new COSFloat(rect[1])); // lower y boundary >> > rectCosArray.add(new COSFloat(rect[2])); // upper x boundary >> > rectCosArray.add(new COSFloat(rect[3])); // upper y boundary >> > >> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.RECT, rectCosArray); >> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.FT, COSName.getPDFName("Tx")); // Field >> Type >> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.TYPE, COSName.ANNOT); >> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.SUBTYPE, COSName.getPDFName("Widget")); >> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.T, new COSString(fieldName)); >> > >> > cosDict.setString(COSName.DA, "/Helv "+fontSize+" Tf >> "+textColor+" >> > g"); >> > >> > COSString fieldValue = new COSString(value); >> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.V, fieldValue); >> > >> > return cosDict; >> > } >> > >> > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? >> > >> > Thanks in advance! >> > >> > Gilad >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >
