Hi everyone, thanks in advance for your support. I'm experiencing some problems filling form fields on the fly. I have seen a number of other posts regarding this issue to no avail, however, I'm confident it can be resolved. The problem involves the movement or shifting of form field text following the usage of the setField or setFields methods of the class AcroFields. The problem is especially apparent with multi-line text boxes and with text boxes that utilize the "resize text to fit box" feature.
I allow users to fill out a PDF form, submit it back to the server, and then I use the form values they submitted to fill and flatten the same form on my server. However, when I (or the user) opens up the resulting PDF document the text within the form fields has moved drastically, which is not good given the "print ready" file we are trying to output. I have used both the HTML PDF submit and the FDF submit methods of submitting the PDF form, but experienced the same problem, I thought that the form field attributes (e.g. padding) weren't being passed or something so I was surprised that the FDF submit method did not work. Either way, the problem can be very clearly seen by accessing the URL below, you'll have to upload one image to see the first preview, then you can submit the form to the server, add the product to your shopping cart, and then press "view artwork" to see the flattened artwork where the multiline text boxes are clearly messed up (text is shifted up and to the left). http://www.adsoftdirect.com/index.cfm?page=previewPdf&productid=128&templateid=3&storefrontid=6 The current code that makes this possible is way simple, which is why I think the problem may be with iText, excuse that it's done in cold fusion script, but you get the idea... fdf = createObject("java", "com.lowagie.text.pdf.FdfReader").init(FDFByteArrayData); form1 = stamp.getAcroFields(); form1.setFields(fdf); Also, I've seen it noted before that this problems is related to the different versions of acrobat/reader, however this problem is occurring across the board with all versions of acrobat and reader and a closer inspection of the generated PDF shows that the text has in fact moved before being flattened or it is not being inputted into the field properly in the first place. I know that it is possible to capture the form field coordinates and use columnText to "recreate" the text on the PDF, but this is hardly a long-term solution and would not take advantage of the "scale font size to fit" functionality which has numerous implications in terms of generating print ready documents. So if we could find a way to make this work, even gulp, if it involves modifying the underlying iText library, then I would be very gracious...I've been developing our technology for over two years and iText has been great, this is the last hurdle I've got to overcome so any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Miller - President/CEO AdSoft Direct, Inc. 1-888-3-ADSOFT (1-888-323-7638) Office: 925-251-0566 Cell: 510-504-5006 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.adsoftdirect.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
