Many appologies for sending directly to you.
I develop a solution for this (in C# though), I'm interesting in other's
thoughts.
Best Regards,
Pete Mourfield
// Get's the field "special" format (i.e. Date, Time, etc)
string GetFieldFormat(AcroFields.Item item)
{
PdfDictionary aa =
(PdfDictionary)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(((PdfDictionary)item.merged[0]).Get(PdfName.AA));
if (null != aa)
{
PdfDictionary f =
(PdfDictionary)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(aa.Get(PdfName.F));
if (null != f)
{
PdfString js = (PdfString)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(f.Get(PdfName.JS));
if (null != js)
{
string sScriptName = js.ToString();
if (sScriptName.Contains("AFNumber_Format"))
return "Number";
else if (sScriptName.Contains("AFDate_Format"))
return "Date";
else if (sScriptName.Contains("AFTime_Format"))
return "Time";
else if (sScriptName.Contains("AFSpecial_Format"))
return "Special";
else if (sScriptName.Contains("AFPercent_Format"))
return "Percent";
else
return "Custom";
}
}
}
return "None";
}
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:45:05 +0200
>Peter Mourfield wrote:
>
>>Bruno,
>>
>>I'm hoping that you can help me. I'm trying to use iText to determine the
>>format (text, date, etc) of a field in an existing pdf document. So far I've
>>been unable to figure out how to do this.
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>Please don't send mail to iText developers personally,
>use the mailinglist instead: http://itext.ugent.be/info/contact.php
>
>As for your question: it is possible to determine the type
>of a field with method AcroFields.getFieldType, this will
>return one of the following values:
>AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_NONE
>AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_TEXT
>AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_PUSHBUTTON
>AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_RADIOBUTTON
>AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_CHECKBOX
>AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_COMBO
>AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_LIST
>AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_SIGNATURE
>However, if a field is a text field (FIELD_TYPE_TEXT),
>there is no way to tell if it should contain a name, a date,...
>or any other construct.
>br,
>Bruno
>
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