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.
Dan.
On Monday, November 11, 2019, 01:28:38 PM EST, Tilman Hausherr
<[email protected]> 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
><[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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