FormFill


1   import org.faceless.pdf2.*;
2   import java.io.*;
3   import java.awt.Color  ;
4   
5   // The second stage in the "Form" series of examples - take a pre-existing
6   // form (created by "FormCreation.java") and fill the fields in. This is
7   // extremely easy, as you can see below. The resulting form is written to
8   // "FormFill.pdf", which is then processed by "FormProcess.java".
9   //
10  // To make this example a little more interesting, we've also changed the
11  // style of one of the existing buttons.
12  //
13  // $Id: FormFill.java,v 1.2 2003/11/03 10:56:14 mike Exp $
14  //
15  public class FormFill
16  {
17      public static void main(String  [] args)
18          throws IOException
19      {
20      // Load the existing PDF and extract the form
21      //
22          PDF pdf = new PDF(new PDFReader(new FileInputStream("FormCreation.pdf")));
23      Form form = pdf.getForm();
24  
25      // Set the values of the form
26      //
27      ((FormText)form.getElement("Name")).setValue("John Tester");
28      ((FormText)form.getElement("Address")).setValue("12 Test St\nTestville\nTestLand");
29      ((FormText)form.getElement("Year")).setValue("1960");
30      ((FormChoice)form.getElement("Month")).setValue("May");
31      ((FormRadioButton)form.getElement("Rating")).setValue("2");
32      ((FormCheckbox)form.getElement("Spam")).setValue("Yes");
33  
34      // Set the style of the "Submit" button. You wouldn't normally
35      // do this if you were filling out a form obviously, but the
36      // capability is there to completely restyle the form.
37      //
38      PDFStyle bg = new PDFStyle();
39      PDFStyle fg = new PDFStyle();
40      bg.setFillColor(Color.yellow);
41      bg.setLineColor(Color.red);
42      bg.setFormStyle(PDFStyle.FORMSTYLE_SOLID);
43      fg.setFont(new StandardFont(StandardFont.TIMES), 12);
44      fg.setFillColor(Color.black);
45          WidgetAnnotation widget =  form.getElement("Submit").getAnnotation(0);
46      widget.setTextStyle(fg);
47          widget.setBackgroundStyle(bg);
48  
49          // Save the completed form
50      //
51      pdf.render(new FileOutputStream("FormFill.pdf"));
52      }
53  }
54
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