I looked at the files in PDFDebugger. The "This is a tooltip added by
acrobat" line appears in "/TU", which is meant for something different:
(Optional; PDF 1.3) An alternate field name that shall be used in place
of the actual field name wherever the field shall be identified in the
user interface (such as in error or status messages referring to the
field). This text is also useful when extracting the document’s contents
in support of accessibility to users with disabilities or for other
purposes (see 14.9.3, “Alternate Descriptions”).
Tilman
Am 25.05.2017 um 15:23 schrieb Gary Grosso:
One more upload:
http://aapro.net/PDF/DocBookTest3_modified_w-Acrobat-Tooltip-also-TextField.pdf
Contrary to what I inferred from "how to add tooltip" articles I read online,
Acrobat allows me to add a tooltip to a textfield (not just a button), and it works just
fine.
This is so much nicer than foodling around with invisible buttons. It would be
great if this just worked in PDFBox.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Grosso [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 9:04 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: what should
PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary.setRolloverCaption do?
I also uploaded http://aapro.net/PDF/DocBookTest3_modified_captionsByPDFBox.pdf
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Grosso [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 8:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: what should
PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary.setRolloverCaption do?
Yes, it does work if done with Acrobat, see
http://aapro.net/PDF/DocBookTest3_modified_w-Acrobat-Tooltip.pdf ( done using Button
Properties > General > Tooltip).
I need general tooltip capability. Everywhere I look, this is done with
buttons, sometimes invisible. This is perhaps the last requirement needed for a
customer to choose PDFBox (and my services) for this work.
Can this be made to work, or can another way be described of getting tooltips
(to appear on various form fields)?
One possibility seems to be using NormalCaption on an invisible button. I am
able to make the button invisible, but not the caption text. Also, if I succeed
in making the caption text invisible, I don't know if it will stay invisible
when moused over.
Thanks,
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 4:21 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: what should
PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary.setRolloverCaption do?
According to the PDF spec: "(Optional; pushbutton fields only) The widget
annotation's rollover caption, which shall be displayed when the user rolls the cursor
into its active area without pressing the mouse button."
The best would be to create such a file with Adobe Acrobat to see if it works
at all.
Tilman
Am 25.05.2017 um 03:45 schrieb Gary Grosso:
I was expecting
PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary.setRolloverCaption(String<eclipse-javadoc:%E2%98%82=Morph2Form/D:%5C/JavaTraining%5C/EclipseNeonWorkspace%5C/CreateSimpleForm%5C/lib%5C/pdfbox-2.0.6.jar%3Corg.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation(PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary.class%E2%98%83PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary~setRolloverCaption~Ljava.lang.String;%E2%98%82java.lang.String>
caption) to display the value of argument caption when the user's mouse rolled over
the widget.
I get the value passed to setNormalCaption() regardless. Is the problem with my
expectations, my usage, or the implementation?
I'm morphing an existing PDF document, finding locations based on a kludge,
since this is still proof-of-principle, so I only show the one method below. I
can write a create-PDF-from-scratch driver for the method if necessary.
Thanks,
Gary
private static void addButtonAtRect(PDPage page, PDAcroForm acroForm,
String text, PDRectangle rect) {
PDPushButton pushButton = new PDPushButton(acroForm);
// For now, just make sure each partial name is unique.
String nameStr = text.replaceAll(" ", "") + "Name" +
Integer.toString(nameCnt);
nameCnt++;
pushButton.setPartialName(nameStr);
acroForm.getFields().add(pushButton);
PDAnnotationWidget widget = pushButton.getWidgets().get(0);
widget.setRectangle(rect);
if (rect.getHeight() < MIN_RECT_HEIGHT) {
float diff = MIN_RECT_HEIGHT - rect.getHeight();
rect.setLowerLeftY((float) (rect.getLowerLeftY() - diff/2.0));
rect.setUpperRightY((float) (rect.getUpperRightY() + diff/2.0));
}
widget.setPage(page);
String jsString = "app.alert(\"" + text + " Performed.\");";
//Creating PDActionJavaScript object
PDActionJavaScript action = new PDActionJavaScript(jsString);
widget.setAction(action);
acroForm.setNeedAppearances(true);
PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary fieldAppearance = new
PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary(new COSDictionary());
fieldAppearance.setBorderColour(new PDColor(new float[]{0.3F, 0.3F,
0.7F}, PDDeviceRGB.INSTANCE));
fieldAppearance.setBackground(new PDColor(new float[]{0.9F, 0.9F,
0.9F}, PDDeviceRGB.INSTANCE));
fieldAppearance.setNormalCaption("This is my NormalCaption");
fieldAppearance.setRolloverCaption("This is my RolloverCaption");
fieldAppearance.setAlternateCaption("This is my AlternateCaption");
widget.setAppearanceCharacteristics(fieldAppearance);
widget.setPrinted(true);
try {
page.getAnnotations().add(widget);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
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