I would like to change default font of every field in an existing PDF form.This suggests to me that I should change the default appearance of the acroform and, so be on the safe side (since I am not the author of these forms), change the default appearance of each PDTextField (I don't care about choice fields &c.)
All of the examples that I have been able to find of changing field appearances are PDFBox 1.8 examples that get the COS Dictionary, mess around with it and reset the field dictionary AND THEN CREATE A NEW INSTANCE OF THE FIELD (e.g. java - How to set the text of a PDTextbox to a color? - Stack Overflow <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22073137/how-to-set-the-text-of-a-pdtextbox-to-a-color/22082301#22082301>), which presents me with practical and aesthetic problems. The explanation given for this is 'The field variable has to be renewed in between because `PDVariableText` stores the default appearance in a hidden member during initialization'. I would really like to avoid doing this if I don't have to. I would think that, in 2.0, I could get away with something like: * field.setDefaultAppearance("/Helv 0 Tf 0 g");* Can I get away with just that? Or do I need to create a new field instance? -- *Evan Williams* Sr. Software Engineer [email protected] *www.ZappRx.com <http://www.zapprx.com/>*
