hi maruan there is a PDAppearanceCharacteristicsDictionary at the bottom of the code before the widget is added to the annotations list
i actually tested code posted in forums that said they worked but nothing gets shown. im using 2.0.4 thanks On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:06 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > >
