org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form
Class PDAppearance

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAppearance

public class PDAppearance
extends Object

This one took me a while, but i'm proud to say that it handles the appearance of a textbox. This allows you to apply a value to a field in the document and handle the appearance so that the value is actually visible too. The problem was described by Ben Litchfield, the author of the example: org.apache.pdfbox.examlpes.fdf.ImportFDF. So Ben, here is the solution.

Version:

$Revision: 1.20 $

Author:

sug, Ben Litchfield

Constructor Summary

PDAppearance(PDAcroForm theAcroForm, PDVariableText field)
Constructs a COSAppearnce from the given field.

Method Summary

void	setAppearanceValue(String apValue) This is the public method for setting the appearance stream.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PDAppearance

public PDAppearance(PDAcroForm theAcroForm,
                    PDVariableText field)
             throws IOException

Constructs a COSAppearnce from the given field.

Parameters:

theAcroForm - the acro form that this field is part of.

field - the field which you wish to control the appearance of

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error creating the appearance.

Method Detail

setAppearanceValue

public void setAppearanceValue(String apValue)
                        throws IOException

This is the public method for setting the appearance stream.

Parameters:

apValue - the String value which the apperance shoud represent

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error creating the stream.