> Gary Grosso <[email protected]> hat am 18. Mai 2017 um 05:09 > geschrieben: > > > Thanks for your reply, Tilman. > > I see PDFBox allows for text field/area (single or multi-line), list box, > combo box, check box, push button, and radio button. > > Would it be reasonable to say that implementing a date picker in an acroform > should be possible, but would require JavaScript (e.g., using > PDFormFieldAdditionalActions class)? > > By the way, it seems it is no longer possible to search the archives. For > example, this: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/search?a=1&l=pdfbox-users%40incubator.apache.org&haswords=PDDocument&x=16&y=9&from=&subject=&datewithin=1y&date=2016-05-15¬words=&o=relevance > > results in: > > "No matches were found for PDDocument date:[20150516 TO 20170515]" You are using the wrong ml-address, replace "[email protected]" with "[email protected]". The former one was deprecated in 2009 when pdfbox graduated to a top level project.
Andreas > > which I know not to be true. > > Am I searching incorrectly or in the incorrect location? > > Thanks, > Gary > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 1:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: creating fillable forms, possibly in/from existing PDF file? > > Am 17.05.2017 um 18:34 schrieb Gary Grosso: > > Hi, > > > > I am exploring a requirement to generate PDF fillable forms. > > > > A major decision is whether to start with our current PDF (created with a > > derivative of PStill), or build it with PDFBox from scratch. In the past I > > added bookmarks to our existing PDF files using PDFBox. > > > > I see in the examples > > (https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/) > > that a PDAcroForm instance is being added to a newly created empty > > PDDocument. > > > > Is it worth considering modifying an existing PDF document to add fillable > > form fields? Or should I not waste time with that approach and plan to > > create a new document from scratch? > > IMHO it doesn't make much difference because acroform is separate from the > rest. Creating fields with PDFBox is always tricky. > > Tilman > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
