Here is the sample code we tried to send yesterday. It's attached in the old
MS Word format for ease of opening.
On Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 02:22:03 AM EST, Maruan Sahyoun
<[email protected]> wrote:
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
> ><[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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