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From: Gilad Denneboom <gilad.denneboom@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:30:36 +0100
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Subject: Re: Creating new text fields using PDFBox 2.x
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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 <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
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/
> CreateSimpleForm.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 <
> gilad.denneboom@gmail.com>:
> >
> > 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
>
>
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