iText can fill forms created by anything. Even the form you created works correctly, the reason it doesn't flatten is that you created it as "visible but don't print".
Paulo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mira Al Arab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your questions about iText here" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Flattening combo boxes To. Mr. Soares, That will not help because eventually I will need to fill in forms created by other tools not ones I create through iText. I tried the same code for pdf Forms I generated using a tool called PDFill and the same thing is happening when I flatten the forms. Also, my company will (or has already) order the book for me so hopefully I will have it very soon. Mira Al Arab. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:37:54 +0100> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] > Flattening combo boxes> > Create the combo using TextField. The tutorial > is outdated and this is > described in the book.> > Paulo> > ----- > Original Message ----- > From: "Mira Al Arab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > To: <[email protected]>> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 > 9:36 AM> Subject: [iText-questions] Flattening combo boxes> > > > Hello > all, I am new to iText and am facing a problem when filling a form. > > First, the form is created using the example in the online tutorial. It > > creates a combo box with three values ('Red', 'Green', 'Blue' ). The exact > > code is in the example: com.lowagie.examples.forms.FormCombo You get the > > attached form: combo.pdf Then code to select the value from the combo > box is > written and the form is flattened.> PdfReader reader = new > PdfReader( 'combo.pdf');> PdfStamper chooser = new PdfStamper( reader, new > > FileOutputStream('combo_selected.pdf'));> > AcroFields fields = > chooser.getAcroFields();> > > > fields.setField( 'ACombo', 'Blue' );> > > chooser.setFormFlattening( true ); chooser.close(); This result is a > > form with nothing on it: the attached form combo_selected.pdf I checked > the > mailing lists but couldn't find anything that would explain this > behaviour. > I tried on both iText 1.5.3 and iText 2.0.4. Thankyou in > advance for your > time. Mira Al Arab.> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------> > This SF.net email is ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
