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.
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