I’m trying to achieve the following. Client has forms approved by U.S. states where font must be Helvetica 9pt. Some content to be populated on the forms does not fit in the field. In this case there is a “footnote” such as "Addendum 1" populated in the field, and the actual content for the field is populated on an addendum page merged as a separate page to the base form. The addendum page references the numbered addendum(s) populated in the base form’s fields. Ideally, Addendum 1, Addendum 2, and so on would be numbered left to right, top to bottom in the fields of the form. Sounds like that is not possible without setting up some type of external ordering of the fields on the form.
> On Sep 12, 2016, at 9:47 AM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Barry, > > >> Am 12.09.2016 um 17:16 schrieb Barry Neu <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >> >> Is there any way to influence the order the fields occur in the field tree >> when creating fillable forms or otherwise? >> > > is there a specific order you are looking for? What are you trying to > achieve? The order of the fields in the AcroForms fields array and the order > how they are tabbed on screen when a user filled the form are not related! > > BR > Maruan > > >>> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>
