I am creating fillable PDF form using adobe acrobat.
When I choose right alignment for a text field; I can't type spaces between the words when I fill the form. (so the spaces don't appears)
However when I enable the "Multi- line" option or the "Scroll long text" option, I am able to type spaces ! In addition after I finish typing my words and then go back to insert the space, the space appear !
I am using adobe acrobat 9 and my form is generated based on word document.
I had the same problem--it's inconsistent and a bit buggy. Until they fix it, I recommend just enabling the "Scroll long text" option.
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When using PDFBox to populate a text field in a form in a PDF, it is possible that the text overflows the text field and is not visible when opening the PDF in a viewer.
Question: Is it possible to use PDFBox to detect how much text within a text field is visible?
At the risk of falling victim to an XY problem, here is the context in which this came up.
I have a PDF which is provided by the Danish government, and the software I am creating needs to be able to fill out this form programmatically. On pages 5 and 6 of this document, there is a large blank area that needs to be filled out. The way the PDF creators designed it, they just made two text fields (named Text57 and Text58), which a person directly filling out the form would manually need to jump between.
The problem is, I need to be able to populate these fields with text, and if the text is too large to fit in the first text field, then it needs to overflow into the second text field. However, I do not seem to have any way of actually detecting when the text overflows in the first text field.
One workaround which could be acceptable, would be if I could modify the document to remove the second text field, and just have the first text field span multiple pages, but while playing around in Acrobat, this does not seem to be possible.
The PDF in question can be found here: https://www.trafikstyrelsen.dk/~/media/Dokumenter/10%20Bolig/Bolig/Private%20lejeboliger/Lejekontrakt/typeformular-a.pdf
Here is a code snippet which populates the problematic field with 100 lines numbered from 1 to 100.
PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(new File("typeformular-a.pdf"));
PDField text57 = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm().getField("Text57");
text57.setValue(IntStream.range(1, 101).mapToObj(Integer::toString)
.collect(Collectors.joining(System.lineSeparator())));
document.save("typeformular-a.out.pdf");
After the code is run, we can see that the text gets cut off after line 44. Of course I cannot simply count lines in my text, because under normal circumstances the lines in the text will wrap, which would invalidate that approach.
Auxiliary question: Is there any other approach that could solve this original problem of splitting text across multiple pages?
Short version:
So I have a Word doc with very specific formatting guidelines, into which Japanese users have to input text. Despite being specifically told not to, instead of using "tab" to create indents, they will very often use full-width Japanese spaces (U+3000). I want to somehow prevent the entry of this character to avoid having to reformat.
Long version:
We send out Japanese/English-language script templates for Japanese users to input their own dialogue into. They will often ignore the formatting of the script, using hard returns and full-width spaces to hack-format the doc (very common practice among Japanese Word users). This leads to unnecessary time spent on re-formatting. As I see it I have three options:
Prevent the entry of undesired characters, by blocking the character
or setting up a dialogue box every time it is used.
Automate a dialogue box to pop up when the document is saved, displaying a message to users to make sure no undesired characters were used.
Create a macro to auto-replace undesired characters on my end.
Any suggestions? Help is very much appreciated.
I have a PDF with forms defined in it.
One field in the form is a multi line text field.
The value in the text field is populated by a java program using Apache PDFBox.
The issue is when the value is of around 5 to 6 lines, the text box displays the text automatically. But if it is more than 6 lines, the text box does not display the value. I had to specifically click on the text field to display the text. If I click outside the text box again, the text disappears.
The text field is read only with Multi Line and Scrolling options enabled.
Any ideas what is causing this weird issue?
I have Adobe Acrobat Pro 11, Adobe Acrobat XI and Adobe Reader to view the files. All have the same issue.
It sounds like a typical "appearance" problem. There's no form field appearance in the field widget dictionary so when you click in the field, the raw string data is shown but when you click out there is no appearance to display so you get a blank. You can test this out by toggling the multi-line setting in the field properties in Acrobat so it generates an appearance. If that fixes it, then you the problem is the one I describe.
You can use PDFBox to set the "needs appearances" flag in the file that will tell Adobe viewers to regenerate field appearances when the file is opened but that doesn't work for all PDF viewers. To make the field value visible in all PDF viewers, it's best to generate appearances when you populate the field values.
The Datalogics PDF Java Toolkit can automatically generate appearances based on field values. Full disclosure, I represent Datalogics.
OK, here's a problem i have. Searching the net did not help much.
In VB.net, you can right-align the text on a label. The label however has automatic word-wrap capabilities so it seems impossible to display a text in the label (of constant size) and always view the last part of the text.
I'm placing a folder name in the label and i'm always interested in seeing the last part of the text. As is now, if the path name is too large, i keep seeing the i.e. "C:\Documents and Settings" part, which i don't care to see. In VB6 when you right-align the text in a label, it displays the last part and if the text doesn't fit, it just cuts the text at the beginning. In VB.NET if the text is too large to fit in the label, word-wrap kicks in so you end up seeing the first part of the text only.
When using a textbox, even if it's right-aligned, if the text doesn't fit it just shows as much as possible from the START of the text (instead of from the END since it's right-aligned.)
Is there a way to achieve a similar behavior in VB.NET as in VB6's label?
I'm trying to build a web app to programmatically fill out a PDF form. I am going to configure my form first in Adobe Acrobat, then write a Java app with iText to fill out all the form fields via user input from the web. The base form I need to fill out comes from the US government. They created form fields with extremely large kerning (character spacing) values I need to change. However, there appears to be no way to modify this value in the Acrobat UI.
Does anyone know how to manipulate character spacing on form fields in Acrobat 8.0 for Windows? I could try to use iText to programmatically manipulate the kerning of the original document, but this would be much more tedious.
I believe I figured this out: kerning is called "combing" in acrobat, and each of the form fields have been "combed". The strange thing is this option isn't checked when I view the properties of the form field, but "combing" is the behaviour I was attempting to replicate.