Hi Tilman Sorry about the bad formatting. When I did the copy and paste it looked fine and included indentations. As for labels? We need to have a label next to an input box indicating for the user what information goes into it.We also need to be able add paragraphs of text to the form We did cerate a new PageContentStream with the true set to put it into append mode but nothing appeared oncewe saved the file. Dan. On Monday, November 11, 2019, 01:28:38 PM EST, Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de> wrote: Am 11.11.2019 um 19:18 schrieb Dan Forth: > Thank you Tilman. Haven't found the CreateSimpleFormWithEmbeddedFont.java >example but will search for it.
This is in the source code download, in the examples subproject. I don't know what you mean with "label". The field name? A popup thing? (That one I don't know, probably javascript needed) Your code is difficult to understand, because the way it looks. I suspect your mailwriter is bad or not configured. Or try to use a fixed font, or use some formatting for code. Adding additional text - see the EmbeddedFonts.java program, but create a new PDPageContentStream with append mode. Make sure that the fifth parameter is used and set to true. Tilman > The next question that follows is there an example on line to add labels to > form fields created using widgets and text in between the fields? > The code below works to add a text field to page two of a .pdf. We're > looking for an example of how to add a label to this fieldand how to add > additional paragraphs of text to the pages between the fields on any given > page. Thank you folks in advance again: > > > PDTextField textFieldHomePhone = new PDTextField(form); > textFieldHomePhone.setPartialName("Home Phone"); //set default appearance > textFieldHomePhone.setDefaultAppearance(defaultAppearance); > form.getFields().add(textFieldHomePhone); PDAnnotationWidget widgetHomePhone > = textFieldHomePhone.getWidgets().get(0); PDRectangle rectHomePhone = new > PDRectangle(50, 750, 200, 20); widgetHomePhone.setRectangle(rectHomePhone); > widgetHomePhone.setPage(page2); PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary > fieldAppearanceHomePhone = new PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary(new > COSDictionary()); fieldAppearanceHomePhone.setBorderColour(new PDColor(new > float[] {2,2,2}, PDDeviceRGB.INSTANCE)); > fieldAppearanceHomePhone.setBackground(new PDColor(new float[] {1,1,2}, > PDDeviceRGB.INSTANCE)); > widgetHomePhone.setAppearanceCharacteristics(fieldAppearanceHomePhone); > widgetHomePhone.setPrinted(true); try { > page2.getAnnotations().add(widgetHomePhone); } catch (IOException e1) { // > TODO Auto-generated catch block e1.printStackTrace(); } try { > textFieldHomePhone.setValue("(###)-###-####"); } catch (IOException e1) { // > TODO Auto-generated catch block e1.printStackTrace(); } > On Monday, November 11, 2019, 01:11:38 PM EST, Tilman Hausherr ><thaush...@t-online.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > There is an example on how to change the default appearance in existing > fields > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47995062/pdfbox-api-how-to-change-font-to-handle-cyrillic-values-in-an-acroform-field > > and see also the CreateSimpleFormWithEmbeddedFont.java example. Maybe > this helps. > > Tilman > > > Am 11.11.2019 um 18:12 schrieb Dan Forth: >> Thank you for the fast response. We're currently typing out the >>defaults as in the code below: >> PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA; PDResources resources = new >>PDResources(); resources.put(COSName.getPDFName("Helv"), font); >>form.setDefaultResources(resources); >> >> PDTextField textSSN = new PDTextField(form); >>textSSN.setPartialName("SSN"); String defaultAppearance = "/Helv 12 Tf 0 0 9 >>rgb"; textSSN.setDefaultAppearance(defaultAppearance); >> >> In some cases we need Helvetica in italics for select fields of text would >> like to be able to take the four lines and condense theminto a class and be >> able to change the Helvetica to Helvetica Italic as a passed parameter. >> And be able to do the same for display setting for selected fields: >> PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary fieldAppearance = new >>PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary(new COSDictionary()); >>fieldAppearance.setBorderColour(new PDColor(new float[] {2,2,2}, >>PDDeviceRGB.INSTANCE)); fieldAppearance.setBackground(new PDColor(new float[] >>{1,1,2}, PDDeviceRGB.INSTANCE)); >>widget.setAppearanceCharacteristics(fieldAppearance); >> We were hoping there was a shorter way than having to type all the lines for >> every text field we need to add. >> Thank you again for any insight. On Monday, November 11, 2019, 11:49:29 >> AM EST, Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> wrote: >> >> Not sure I understand what you are trying to achieve. >> >> AcroForm itself is not page oriented but the widgets i.e. the visual >> representation of the form fields are. >> >> It's sufficient to add the default resources to the AcroForm itself and >> reference these in the form fields default appearance >> string. >> >> Maybe you could show some code of what you are currently doing and we can >> look at ways to improve that? >> >> BR >> Maruan >> >> >>> Is there a tutorial on how to create the default resources and default >>> appearance settings in classes that can be applied when creating acro forms >>> of multiple pages? It would be useful to be able to create multiple >>> default resource or appearance classes and apply them to the acro form >>> fields as needed rather than type each one out in the long form >>> Thank you in advance for any suggestions you can offer this newb. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org