I thought I had a workable solution, but populating field values with
non-null entries does not give consistent results. Near as I can tell,
this has something to do with the "preview" mode of Acrobat reader.
http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/885/cpsid_88564.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/2009/11/script_to_fix_mac_osx_previewa.html
I am not sure, but these articles seem to explain the problem. However, I
need to distribute these files to outside clients and I do not have access
to their Acrobat installations.
>From my limited understanding, the needAppearances flag is either not
getting set, or being ignored in my files. If U update a field the
highlight will show. But I need the highlight to show on empty fields.
Latest example file is attached which shows a single field highlighted
(13a-Company). Other fields have the background color, but do not display.
However this file loaded into any non-Adobe reader displays fine.
Does anyone have experience with this type of issue?
Ken Bogart | Ameritas | IT Consultant
1876 Waycross Road, Cincinnati, OH 45240 | p: 513-595-2299 | f:
513-595-2518 | kbog...@ameritas.com
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Date: 12/09/2011 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF Field background color not
displayed or printed
Its not quite as simple as the highlight fields button... But questioning
my sanity has pointed the way to a solution!
The fields that are highlighted are supposed to be blank. When I was
adding the AcroFieldProperties object I was defining the background color.
But since these fields did not have a value in them they were not getting
the appearance update on load. Apparently I have to have a value in the
fields for the background to display.
AcroFieldProperties shadedField = new
AcroFieldProperties(shadedFieldName.trim());
shadedField.setBackgroundColor(shadeColor);
I have to add a space to the field and then the reader will detect it and
update appearance. Ideally an empty string would be preferred, but I can
live with a space.
Added >>>>>>>> shadedField.setFieldValue(" ");
Now all the fields are filled and display/print in yellow as required.
Thanks for your assistance
Ken Bogart | Ameritas | IT Consultant
1876 Waycross Road, Cincinnati, OH 45240 | p: 513-595-2299 | f:
513-595-2518 | kbog...@ameritas.com
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Date: 12/09/2011 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF Field background color not
displayed or printed
Op 9/12/2011 16:28, Leonard Rosenthol schreef:
> The only reason that it doesn't display is that you have the "Hilight
> existing fields" option turned on in Adobe Acrobat/Reader. If you
> turn that off (the button in the purple bar at the top of the window)
> then the yellow displays just fine.
A typical case of overlooking the obvious.
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