Sure, it’s in the first email of this thread and here for convenience: PDF in question is here: https://github.com/BarryNeu/shared <https://github.com/BarryNeu/shared>
Thank you. > On Sep 12, 2016, at 1:36 PM, John Hewson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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] >
