Hello -
I need to build a very standard form layout as you would see on paper,
something like:
ADDRESS
First Name: ____FirstName_____ Last Name: ____Last Name________
Address: ____ 33 Main St.________________
City: __Tulsa________________ State: _OK_ Zip: __22311__
It sounded simple to put together, and I tried several ways to do this, all
within a PdfPTable/PdfPCell structure:
1. simply underlining the data using Font setStyle()
2. using the Border on the TextField objects
3. using PdfPCell.setCellEvent() with a PdfPCellEvent class that uses
PdfContentByte a la section 10.2.2 of iTextInAction
however each had their drawbacks, including #3 which prevented the
PdfStamper from setting field values, as it appears only 1 Cell Event is
honored per cell.
Here is an example of how I'm currently building a row of the form:
// -- Line 2 --------------------------------------------------
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3);
table.getDefaultCell().setBorder(PdfPCell.NO_BORDER);
table.setWidthPercentage(70);
table.setWidths(new float[]{110f, 100f, 700f});
// Label 1
cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
cell.setPaddingRight(0f);
labelFont.setSize(10f);
cell.addElement(new Phrase("Start Date:", labelFont));
table.addCell(cell);
// Field 1
cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
f1 = new TextField(writer, new Rectangle(0,0,50,10),
"q.address.address1");
f1.setFont(fieldFont.getBaseFont());
f1.setFontSize(10f); // Yes this is redundant but necessary
cell.setCellEvent(new FieldCell(f1.getTextField(), 30,
writer));
cell.setCellEvent(underline);
table.addCell(cell);
table.addCell(blank);
mainTable.addCell(table);
I'm curious how other people are rendering such a standard form and
maintaining the "fill in the blanks" look and feel of the form - i.e.
underlines should exist for each field whether or not data exists - and
having the underlines wrap with wrapped data.
I can think of a couple other possibilities such as:
* upgrade to 2.x and use the new drawing package?? Big question mark there
* I recall seeing that text could be overlayed using absolute positioning of
the data over top, but that sounds rife with problems
I did initially upgrade to 2.1.7, had the bouncycastle-dependency issue,
downgraded to 2.1.3 and saw that setBorder() no longer functioned as it did
in 1.3.1, and finally reverted back to 1.3.1 where I have other stuff
working.
Could anyone offer another perspective on this? Strangely I don't see these
sorts of examples laying around.
Thanks for any ideas -
Kent
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