I found the answer... I needed to use NoView instead of ToggleNoView. So for those interested, setting setNoView(false) and setPrint(true) does the trick.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Gilad Denneboom <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe you can help me with one additional thing... I want to set the field > as "Hidden, but printable" but none of the built-in methods seem to do that. > I've trying various combinations of setInvisible, setHidden, setPrinted > and setToggleNoView, but they didn't work. Any ideas how to achieve that? > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Gilad Denneboom < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for the tip! >> >> I got it to work, but not by using the COSDictionary object, which didn't >> see to "take". My final code is this: >> >> PDTextField bottledOnField = new PDTextField(acroForm); >> String defaultAppearanceString = "/Helv 12 Tf 0 0 1 rg"; >> bottledOnField.setDefaultAppearance(defaultAppearanceString); >> bottledOnField.setPartialName("BottledOn"); >> acroForm.getFields().add(bottledOnField); >> >> PDAnnotationWidget bottledOnWidget = >> bottledOnField.getWidgets().get(0); >> bottledOnWidget.setRectangle(new PDRectangle(bottledOnX, >> bottledOnY, bottledOnW, bottledOnH)); >> bottledOnWidget.setHidden(false); >> bottledOnWidget.setPrinted(true); >> bottledOnField.setQ(1); // set alignment to "center" >> bottledOnField.setReadOnly(true); >> bottledOnWidget.setPage(p); >> p.getAnnotations().add(bottledOnField.getWidgets().get(0)); >> >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> you are missing to add the field to the AcroForm. Please take a look at >>> >>> https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/examples/src/main >>> /java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/CreateSimp >>> leForm.java?view=markup >>> >>> If that doesn't work for you let me know and I'll enhance the sample. >>> >>> BR >>> Maruan >>> >>> > Am 24.02.2017 um 17:26 schrieb Gilad Denneboom < >>> [email protected]>: >>> > >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > I'm in the process of moving from PDFBox 1.x to 2.x, but have >>> encountered >>> > an issue that I hope you could help me with. >>> > One of my requirements in various projects is to add new form fields >>> to a >>> > file. >>> > In PDFBox 1.x I would do this by generating a COSDictionary object >>> which >>> > contained all the basic field properties (type, value, rect, font size, >>> > text color, etc.), and would then use it to generate a new PDTextbox >>> object >>> > (for example), which I would then add the page's annotation list. And >>> here >>> > is my problem. In PDFBox 2.x the constructor for PDTextField no longer >>> > accepts the COSDictionary as its second parameter, only a PDAcroForm >>> as its >>> > first. So how am I supposed to generate a new field? >>> > Then I noticed that the PDAnnotationWidget constructor can now take a >>> > COSDictionary object as its parameter, so I tried that, but it doesn't >>> > work... No field is added. >>> > Here's my my code (the coordinates might be off, but it should still >>> add >>> > something, I think...): >>> > >>> > originalDoc = PDDocument.load(new File(outputFilePath)); >>> > PDAcroForm acroForm = new PDAcroForm(originalDoc); >>> > p = originalDoc.getPage(0); >>> > float bottledOnX = inch * 2.375f; >>> > float bottledOnY = inch * 0.032f; >>> > float bottledOnW = inch * 0.257f; >>> > float bottledOnH = inch * 0.231f; >>> > COSDictionary bottledOnFieldDic = createTextField("BottledOn", >>> > "TEST", new float[] {bottledOnX, bottledOnY, bottledOnX+bottledOnW, >>> > bottledOnY+bottledOnH}, "50", 1); >>> > PDTextField bottledOnField = new PDTextField(acroForm); >>> > PDAnnotationWidget bottledOnWidget = new >>> > PDAnnotationWidget(bottledOnFieldDic); >>> > bottledOnWidget.setHidden(false); >>> > bottledOnWidget.setPrinted(true); >>> > bottledOnField.getWidgets().set(0, bottledOnWidget); >>> > bottledOnField.setQ(1); // set alignment to "center" >>> > bottledOnField.setReadOnly(true); >>> > p.getAnnotations().add(bottledOnField.getWidgets().get(0)); >>> > originalDoc.save(outputFilePath); >>> > originalDoc.close(); >>> > >>> > private static COSDictionary createTextField(String fieldName, >>> String >>> > value, float[] rect, String fontSize, int textColor) { >>> > COSDictionary cosDict = new COSDictionary(); >>> > COSArray rectCosArray = new COSArray(); >>> > rectCosArray.add(new COSFloat(rect[0])); // lower x boundary >>> > rectCosArray.add(new COSFloat(rect[1])); // lower y boundary >>> > rectCosArray.add(new COSFloat(rect[2])); // upper x boundary >>> > rectCosArray.add(new COSFloat(rect[3])); // upper y boundary >>> > >>> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.RECT, rectCosArray); >>> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.FT, COSName.getPDFName("Tx")); // Field >>> Type >>> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.TYPE, COSName.ANNOT); >>> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.SUBTYPE, COSName.getPDFName("Widget")); >>> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.T, new COSString(fieldName)); >>> > >>> > cosDict.setString(COSName.DA, "/Helv "+fontSize+" Tf >>> "+textColor+" >>> > g"); >>> > >>> > COSString fieldValue = new COSString(value); >>> > cosDict.setItem(COSName.V, fieldValue); >>> > >>> > return cosDict; >>> > } >>> > >>> > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? >>> > >>> > Thanks in advance! >>> > >>> > Gilad >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >> >
