scanning quickly through your code it looks fine. But what is missing - and that's the reason that you don't see anything - is the appearance stream for the checkbox. The best thing is to look at a sample PDF and replicate the appearance stream for that.
BR Maruan > Am 08.03.2017 um 14:57 schrieb chitgoks <[email protected]>: > > hi tilman. i need help on checkbox creation. im creating a group of > checkbox but the thing is, it does not show in pdf. i tried sample code i > found even in stackoverflow but they do not get shown in pdf when viewed. > > even if i add 1 checkbox nothing gets shown. > > here is my code. please advise thank you > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > f (pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm() == null) { > pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog().setAcroForm(new > PDAcroForm(pdfDocument)); > } > > PDAcroForm cbAcroForm = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm(); > PDCheckBox checkBox = new PDCheckBox(cbAcroForm); > checkBox.setPartialName("cb"); > checkBox.setMappingName(checkBox.getPartialName()); > checkBox.getCOSObject().setString(COSName.DA, "/Helv 0 Tf 0 g"); > > // Replace yes value with checkbox value. > COSBase yes = checkBox.getCOSObject().getDictionaryObject(COSName.YES); > checkBox.getCOSObject().setItem("value here", yes); > checkBox.getCOSObject().removeItem(COSName.YES); > > cbAcroForm.getFields().add(checkBox); > > PDAnnotationWidget cbWidget = new PDAnnotationWidget(); > cbWidget.setRectangle(location); > cbWidget.setPage(pdPage); > cbWidget.setModifiedDate(DateTool.convertDateToCalendar(annotation.getDateModified())); > cbWidget.getCOSObject().setString(COSName.NM, > annotation.getComments().get(0).getUsername()); > cbWidget.setPrinted(true); > > PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary cbAppearance = new > PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary(new COSDictionary()); > cbAppearance.setBackground(Util.hex2PDColor("#000000")); > cbAppearance.setBorderColour(Util.hex2PDColor("#ffffff")); > > cbWidget.setAppearanceCharacteristics(cbAppearance); > > pdPage.getAnnotations().add(cbWidget); --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
