Yeah. That's pretty much what I plan to do. Just checking my method.
Thanks. On 30/03/2016 8:43 pm, "Tilman Hausherr" <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 30.03.2016 um 09:21 schrieb Al Grant: > >> Hi Tilman >> >> My bad. The form already exists. >> >> Is more about filling it out progmatically from the database. >> >> I can use any version of Pdfbox. >> > > Then get the field, and use setValue(). See e.g. the FillFormField example > in the source code download, or the SetField example. > > > // Retrieve an individual field and set it's value. > PDTextField field = (PDTextField) acroForm.getField( > "sampleField" ); > field.setValue("Text Entry"); > > // If a field is nested within the form tree a fully qualified > name > // might be provided to access the field. > field = (PDTextField) acroForm.getField( > "fieldsContainer.nestedSampleField" ); > field.setValue("Text Entry"); > > > Tilman > > >> Regards >> >> Al >> On 30/03/2016 8:12 pm, "Tilman Hausherr" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Am 30.03.2016 um 08:57 schrieb Al Grant: >>> >>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I am looking for a way to get a PDF Form to be partly populated from a >>>> database. >>>> >>>> Is your question how to create a form dynamically, or how to fill an >>> existing form? What PDFBox version are you using? >>> >>> Tilman >>> >>> >>> The database is propriety and I will scrape the data, then use PDFBox to >>>> generate a copy of the form with some of the fields filled out with the >>>> relevant information that was previously scraped. >>>> >>>> Does anyone see any issues with this? >>>> >>>> The environment is XP, and it only has to work across a company LAN. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Al >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
