Thank you folks for your support and rapid responses.
Got the two questions resolved this morning by going back and carefully
retyping the code and putting the ContentStream before the form code. It's
working as we need it.
We're assuming the erros were PEBKAC issues .... Problem Exits Between
Keyboard And Chair
On Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 02:29:24 AM EST, Tilman Hausherr
<thaush...@t-online.de> wrote:
Yeah, I thought he meant something that comes up when in the field. An
ordinary text is of course easy, and it's shown in the examples....
oops, no, it's NOT shown. I'll put this on my TODO list.
Tilman
Am 12.11.2019 um 08:21 schrieb Maruan Sahyoun:
> re labels - there is nothing like a label as a property for an AcroForm
> field. Labels are regular and have to be placed similar
> to other page content.
>
> BR
> Maruan
>
>> Am 11.11.2019 um 23:00 schrieb Dan Forth:
>>> 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.
>> You need to set the "resetContent" parameter to true. That is the "fifth
>> parameter" I mentioned.
>>
>> re those "labels", what could be done is to see how another PDF does it,
>> by looking at it with PDFDebugger.
>>
>> Tilman
>>
>>
>>> 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.
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