Hi, in addition to my last mail would it be possible to send me the template PDF?
BR Maruan > Am 10.07.2015 um 21:17 schrieb Roberto Nibali <[email protected]>: > > Hello > > I'm still working on trying to clone form fields from one PDF to a new > template PDF and have progressed quite well, thanks to the tremendous help of > Maruan and Tilman. Besides some Checkbox issues, which I will report later, I > am currently fighting with PDTextBox font size and text positioning. I'm > using the current SVN drop as of now. > > Specifically, when the DA settings indicate a font size of 0 (auto, I > presume), the resulting PDF contains the wrong font size. I have solved this > as follows: > } else if (field instanceof PDTextField) { > PDTextField textField = (PDTextField) field; > PDTextField newTextField = (PDTextField) newField; > String value = textField.getValue(); > > PDFStreamParser parser = new PDFStreamParser(new > RandomAccessBuffer(newTextField.getDefaultAppearance().getBytes())); > parser.parse(); > final List<Object> tokens = parser.getTokens(); > int setFontOperatorIndex = tokens.indexOf(Operator.getOperator("Tf")); > Integer fontSize = ((COSNumber) tokens.get(setFontOperatorIndex - > 1)).intValue(); > /* This specifies that the text appearing on the button by default should > be Courier > 8pts in size or the original size, and the color of the text is black > (0 g = 0 setgray) > */ > String DAtokens = "15 TL /Cour " + (fontSize == 0 ? 8 : fontSize) + " Tf > 0 g"; > newTextField.getCOSObject().setString(COSName.DA, DAtokens); > > newTextField.setValue(textField.getValue()); > } > My questions: > > * Is there a more sane way of achieving this, and is my approach correct? > * Would there be a certain interest to abstract this into the API, let's say > along the lines of: ((PDTextField) field).getDAFontSize() and ((PDTextField) > field).setDAFontSize() > * Why is the "15 TL" part in the DA token is disregarded by PDFBox? The issue > I'm trying to solve is that the glyph placement inside the PDTextField is > rather off in most cases. Example: > > Original: > > > > PDFBox: > > > > Not knowing any better way to fix this, I thought that using the TL operator > I could fiddle around using the text lead settings. Or would there be a > recognized operator which allows me to vertically balance the glyphs > respecting the PDTextField appearance height? > > * Are there incentives to implement the various text state parameters and > operators, as given by the PDF reference manual section 5.2, table 5.1? Or > even better, would be the text matrix using the Tm operator: > > > > > Best regards >
