Hi Maruan, Thanks for the reply. I am new to the user list concept. I just couldnt figure out how i was gonna update my post (of course i could have tried to lookup the docs somewhere). Yesterday i actually added the implementation for the rendering part to old version of itext (4.2.1). HTMLWorker htmlWorker = new HTMLWorker(document); htmlWorker.parse(new StringReader(richTextStringValue));
I am excited about pdfbox, so will keep an eye. Thanks lots, Moses On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Moses, > > using HTML styled content as a fields value is called Rich Text in PDF > terms. This rich text is applied differently to a field than normal text. > At this point in time PDFBox doesn’t have a high level API to set rich text > but you could use the lower level COS model provided by PDFBox to set the > necessary information for the field. > > Here is a short example of how rich text is specified inside a field’s > properties > > /RV (<?xml version="1.0"?><body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xtml"; > xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/"; > xfa:contentType="text/html" xfa:APIVersion="Acrobat:8.0.0" xfa:spec="2.4"> > <p style="text-align:left"> > > <b> <i> > > Here is some bold italic text </i> > > </b> </p> > > <p style= "font-size:16pt"> > > This text uses default text state parameters but changes the font size to > 16. </p> > > </body> ) > > As you can see there are some tags supported which are familiar from HTML > as the Rich Text part is a subset of XHTML. More details of what’s > permitted can be found in section 12.7.3.4 of the ISO 32000-1 specification. > > > > If you do use PDFBox for rendering purposes at this point in time PDFBox > wouldn’t be able to render such Rich Text but use the pure value and some > other information of the field to render the fields content. > > > BR > Maruan Sahyoun > > > Am 04.05.2014 um 18:54 schrieb Moses Mosese <[email protected]>: > > > Hi, > > I have a requirement to display values that were entered with rich text > > editor (they contain html tags), on pdf document. > > Can pdfbox cater for this? > > > > Currently i use, *drawString > > < > http://pdfbox.apache.org/docs/1.8.4/javadocs/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/edit/PDPageContentStream.html#drawString(java.lang.String) > >* > > (String< > http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true > > > > text), to display and it shows html tags as they are. > > > > Thanks lot, > > Moses > >
