On Jun 9, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Mark Storer wrote:
> I just banged that out in this email here... you'll want to check
> things
> against null hither and yon in Real Code... heck it might not even
> compile.
Almost spot-on. Here's what I ended up with:
private String getFieldFont(AcroFields acroFields, String fieldName)
{
String fontName = null;
try
{
AcroFields.Item item = acroFields.getFieldItem(fieldName);
PdfDictionary merged = item.getMerged(0);
TextField textField = new TextField(null, null, null);
acroFields.decodeGenericDictionary(merged, textField);
String[][] fullFontName =
textField.getFont().getFullFontName();
fontName = fullFontName[0][3];
}
catch (DocumentException de)
{
getServletContext().log(de.getMessage());
}
catch (IOException ioe)
{
getServletContext().log(ioe.getMessage());
}
return fontName;
}
Now, for the rest of the story.
I had my designer create a PDF using Acrobat/Illustrator with twelve
form fields (representing 12 of the 14 base fonts) and then I logged
the values. Here's what I got:
Courier
Courier-Bold
Courier-BoldOblique
Courier-Oblique
Helvetica
Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-BoldOblique
Helvetica-Oblique
Times-Bold
Times-BoldItalic
Times-Italic
Times-Roman
There is a bit of inconsistency there (there is "Times-Roman", but the
bold version is not called "Times-Roman-Bold") but I think that's
either Adobe's fault or it's part of the spec.
Assuming I need to recreate a Font object from those names, can I do
so using FontFactory.getFont() by feeding it a String made up of
letters up to the first hyphen?
--
Thomas Hauk
Shaggy Frog Software
www.shaggyfrog.com
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