Hi Paulo et al,
Thanks for the reply. I know you are inundated with questions so I really
appreciate the feedback, and I'll make this as brief as possible.
Here's what I have done to date.
1) I have a form-letter that I'd need to use as a template. This template
was created with fields using MSWord.
3) I converted the template to PDF.
4) I'm trying to use the AcroFields object (per example) to update the
dynamic fields and write that to a new PDF file.
The I/O from template to new PDF works fine, but the fields are not being
set correctly.
My questions:
1) How do I convert my word template to PDF so that the following code
excerpt will work?:
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("BidInvitationTemplateForm.pdf");
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new
FileOutputStream("TestOut.pdf"));
AcroFields af = stamper.getAcroFields();
af.setField("someField",somedata);
stamper.close();
2) Is there another/better tool for creating a template that can be
converted to PDF?
Again, thanks for any / all info.
Regards,
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Paulo Soares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:57 PM
To: Rob Dickey; itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Newbie to PDF APIs ? Trying to update
fields...
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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