Use PdfReader.getAcroFields() or PdfStamper.getAcroFields(). The positions are in the merged ArrayList in the dictionary key /Rect key. As this is a common request I'll include a method to facilitate the retrieval of the positions and the pages where they are.
If you have a pdf with forms that don't show up in iText you can send it to me privately for inspection.
Best Rgards,
Paulo Soares
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Well, that's a great question. Just by looking at the PDF file, it contains the forms, but when I use the getAcroForm() method of PdfReader, it returns "null", that means it doesn't contain the forms, right? How do I know a PDF file has field forms? To use the getAcroForm() and see what returns? or any other ways to determine?
In this case, I can't use getAcroForm() to get field forms, how can I find the precise positions for those "check boxes" and "Text fields" to fill out or stamp on them?
Can't thank you enough for your help!
Tom
>From: "Paulo Soares"
>To: "tom smith" ,
>CC:
>Subject: RE: stamped.java example /Merging PDF files
>Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:13:03 -0000
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tom smith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 18:49
> > To: Paulo Soares; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Subject: stamped.java example /Merging PDF files
> >
> > I used the getUnderContent(pageNum) of PdfStamper, and it worked on the ones I had problem with text fields. But still some of the check boxes don't work, and I couldn't stamp on top of the check boxes. Is that because of the crop area? How can I get round it?
> >
> You can't put content over a field annotation with iText. The way to do it is to read the pdf, flatten the fields, read it again (with the fields flattened) and stamp over it.
>
> > Another question is when I try to read an exist pdf file which has forms in the end of the file. But the DumpFields example says "This document has no fields." Does anyone know why this is and how to get around this?
> >
> Does it really have field forms?
>
> Best Regards,
> Paulo Soares
>
> > Thank you very much for any help!
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > >From: "Paulo Soares"
> > >To: "tom smith" ,
> > >CC: "Gao, Ping"
> > >Subject: RE: [iText-questions] stamped.java example /Merging PDF files
> > >Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:56:33 -0000
> > >
> > >It works but there's more than meets the eye. You may have a page with a crop area and everything placed there will not show. You may also have a white area and trying to stamp underneath it won't show anything; stamp over the page in this case.
> > >
> > >Best Regards,
> > >Paulo Soares
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tom smith
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:34
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: [iText-questions] stamped.java example /Merging PDF files
> > > >
> > > > Hi Everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I just started playing around with iText today, and used the setTextMatrix(int, int) and showText(String) methods to Stamp on exist pdf file as Paulo Soares's example showed, mostly it works fine, but there is a problem when I tried to stamp "Strings" to certain areas, somehow it doesn't work. Just wondering if anyone else had this problem. Please let me know how I can work around this problem if you have a solution!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Tom
> > > >
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