Is there any way to influence the order the fields occur in the field tree when creating fillable forms or otherwise?
> On Sep 9, 2016, at 4:44 PM, John Hewson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 9 Sep 2016, at 15:15, Barry Neu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello. >> >> The API docs for this method state an iterator is returned which "walks all >> fields in the field tree, in order”. >> Is the order left to right, top to bottom on the form .. I was hoping? >> I was hoping it was but ehe following code seems to prove otherwise. > > It's not a visual order. It's simply the order in which the fields occur in > the field tree. This has no relation to where fields appear on the page. > > -- John > >> PDDocument pdDoc = >> getTemplate("http://localhost:8000/template/Template_MA_ABJ4580MAG5_EF_L70SS_v5.pdf >> <http://localhost:8000/template/Template_MA_ABJ4580MAG5_EF_L70SS_v5.pdf>"); >> PDAcroForm pdAcroForm = pdDoc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm(); >> Iterator<PDField> iter = pdAcroForm.getFieldIterator(); >> while (iter.hasNext()) { >> PDField field = iter.next(); >> String fieldName = field.getPartialName(); >> System.out.println("field partial name: " + fieldName ); >> } >> >> PDF in question is here: https://github.com/BarryNeu/shared >> <https://github.com/BarryNeu/shared> >> >> Thanks in advance. >> Barry >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
