I hear what you are saying about Adobe text being fixed/positional. But I still find it stunning that I CAN do this:
"Hello Mr. John Doe" (using an AcroForm variable) But I Can't do this: "Hello Mr. John Doe, we hope you are doing well" I know Chapter 14 well but this does not provide a solution to allow a user to visually create a template. Your statement that my request is impossible to fulfill could be true with regards to using a PDF document as a template. However, my desire to make this work is not unreasonable. Take, for instance, a PDF template that is provided in the LiveCycle Designer. A timesheet for instance. I can take this template and, using iText, generate 1000's of timesheets with dynamic data. This all works fine until someone asks me to add "Thank you XYZ Company For Your Business". What a joke! Message: 8 Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:28:37 +0100 From: 1T3XT info <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Dynamic Inline Text To: Post all your questions about iText here <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed [email protected] wrote: > Hello, I?ve searched the archives but I cannot find an answer to my problem. That's because what you're asking for is IMPOSSIBLE! > Create a PDF ?template? that drives the mass creation of other PDF > files. This ?template? needs to contain static and dynamic content. With PDF every character is put on an absolute position. There is no "reflow". > I?ve used iText to access AcroForm variables but these type > variables do not appear to offer the solution I need for the > following PDF text: > > ?Thank You FullName For Your Recent Donation? > > Where ?FullName? is a variable. I can?t get an AcroForm to work > because AcroForm variables are not relative to inline text, rather, > they just sit right on top of the text. > > Please help! You are confusing PDF with a Word Processing format. XFA comes close to what you need, but the best way to achieve your goal is to make your PDF as described in chapter 14 of the book "iText in Action". -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------ Quoting [email protected]: > > Hello, I?ve searched the archives but I cannot find an answer to my > problem. Simply put, I need to do this: > > Create a PDF ?template? that drives the mass creation of other PDF > files. This ?template? needs to contain static and dynamic content. > I?ve used iText to access AcroForm variables but these type variables > do not appear to offer the solution I need for the following PDF text: > > ?Thank You FullName For Your Recent Donation? > > Where ?FullName? is a variable. I can?t get an AcroForm to work because > AcroForm variables are not relative to inline text, rather, they just > sit right on top of the text. > > Please help! > > -- > Cody Schilke > PhasePoint Solutions > www.phasepointsolutions.com -- Cody Schilke PhasePoint Solutions www.phasepointsolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
