Now I understand. You want to create the PDF with fields in Acrobat, fill it with iText and present the result to the user that has the option of changing it and submitting the form. iText can do it out-of-the-box, no problem.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Abrahamsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sourceforge. Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 13:31 Subject: SV: [iText-questions] Submitting acroform > Hi again > Thanks for the help so far. See below for more info/questions. > > > At 05:03 PM 7/29/2003 +0200, Martin Abrahamsson wrote: > > >I've created a couple och forms based on existing pdfs (scanned > forms) > > and > > >added acroformfields wich the user editds on screen and then prints > the > > >form. > > > > > Great... > > > > I've only done a couple of forms for a demo so far and it is a hassle > to > > get > > all the formfields in the exact possitions. To speed up things in the > > future > > (lots of forms to create) i'm wondering if it is posssible to add the > > acroformfields in acrobat and then read that form into itext and keep > > the > > formfields for the user to edit when i present it on screen. (this > line > > in > > the docs seems scary " parsing the content of a PDF-file is NOT > POSSIBLE > > with iText " but then there is the method getAcroForm() in > PdfReader...) > > >This is about the content like the text in the page, not the > interactive > >features as the acroforms. > > OK > > > Can > > I i any way use the getAcroForm() and then add it to my new > PdfDocument > > in > > som way? > > > > >I'm not sure about what you want. If you have other forms to create, > that I > >imagine will be different, what's the use of reading them into iText? > >Do you want to read existing forms and apply them to other documents? > >It's probably better to make a step by step workflow of what you > ideally > >pretend so that we (and maybe you) understand exactly what you want to > do. > > The forms i'm going to do is not realy different, i just don't want to > add > the acrofields in iText because it takes forever to find the exact > positions > for every field i need. I would be easier to add them in acrobat with > the > drag and drop functionality. This means they are already included in the > base pdf's i then read into iText. > > What i want to do is: > > 1. Read an existing pdf containing acroformfields into iText. > > 2. Add information from a database (personal information like name > adress > etc) to the pdf. Writing to acrofields or directly to the content byte. > > 3. Presenting the pdf to screen where the user enters text in the > acroformfields, and in stage 1(demo) prints the form. In stage 2 the the > enterd text in the acrofields is to be submitted back to the database > via > sevlet. > > The thing i'm not sure about is if it is possible to keep the > acroformfields > (and in stage 2 the submitbutton) from the original form that i read > into > iText so the user can enter text on screen after i've added the info > from > the database. > > > thanks > /Martin > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
