> On 12 Sep 2016, at 10:17, Barry Neu <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m trying to achieve the following. > Client has forms approved by U.S. states where font must be Helvetica 9pt.
Feel free to share a link to one of these forms and we can take a look. -- John > 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]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
