iText doesn't support forms created with Designer 7. Forms created with
Acrobat 7 will work ok.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:20 PM
Subject: [iText-questions] Newbie to PDF APIs ? Trying to update fields...
I've reviewed some of the samples that use the PDFStamper, AcroFields,
etc.
objects to programmatically update fields from a PDF template and stream
the
update to a new PDF. The samples work great. However, when I tried the
same
things against a PDF template I created using Adobe Designer, the fields
could not be referenced by name as done in the samples. It appears that
the
fields are embedded in a tree (I assume the Cos Layer). A debug statement
after instantiating the PDFStamper shows fields as follows:
Fields info:
{TopmostSubform[0].#subform[0].#subform[10].#subform[16].#field1[1]=com.lowa
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
TopmostSubform[0].#subform[0].#subform[1].#subform[9].#field2[2]=com.lowagie
[EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.
Code Excerpt:
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("TestTemplate.pdf");
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new
FileOutputStream("TestOut.pdf"));
AcroFields form1 = stamper.getAcroFields();
System.out.println("Fields info: "+form1.getFields().toString());
// writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new
FileOutputStream("bidNotice"+bidNotice.getBidNoticeId()+".pdf"));
form1.setField("field1","Test1");
form1.setField("field2", "Test2");
stamper.close();
Again, sorry for the newbie kind-of-question; in reviewing the template
used
in the sample vs the template I created, my template certainly has more
involved in terms of tables. Embedded form fields, etc. Is there another
object(s) of iText I should use to traverse the document tree to get to
the
field nodes? The sample template PDF was "hierarchy flat" so the
references
to a specific field didn't involve subforms, etc.
TIA for any info.
Regards.
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