Am 24.05.2012 12:03, schrieb KEILHOLZ Werner: > I need to add editable text boxes (actual text boxes with a name, not > just 'drawn' text boxes) to a PDF document generated by FOP. > > The xmlgraphics web site seems to suggest that this is possible using > extensions, like in the example of adding JAVA script to open a > search box ( > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/design/extending.html ). > > I did some research and all discussions seem to say that this is > 'impossible'. Didn't anyone ever implement such an extension? Is it > not possible to create editable forms with FOP?
FOP can't produce editable text boxes in PDF directly. It could be done using embedded JavaScript, but using a different tool line PDFBox or iText to post process the PDF generated by FOP is much easier. J.Pietschmann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
