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Sample Kotlin code for using PDFTron SDK with interactive forms (also known as AcroForms). Capabilities include programatically creating new fields and widget annotations, form filling, modifying existing field values, form templating, and flattening form fields. Learn more about our Kotlin PDF Library and PDF Form Filler SDK.
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// Copyright (c) 2001-2019 by PDFTron Systems Inc. All Rights Reserved.
// Consult legal.txt regarding legal and license information.
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package com.pdftron.android.pdfnetsdksamples.samples
import com.pdftron.android.pdfnetsdksamples.OutputListener
import com.pdftron.android.pdfnetsdksamples.PDFNetSample
import com.pdftron.android.pdfnetsdksamples.R
import com.pdftron.android.pdfnetsdksamples.util.Utils
import com.pdftron.common.PDFNetException
import com.pdftron.pdf.*
import com.pdftron.pdf.annots.*
import com.pdftron.sdf.Obj
import com.pdftron.sdf.SDFDoc
import java.util.*
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//This sample illustrates basic PDFNet capabilities related to interactive
//forms (also known as AcroForms).
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
class InteractiveFormsTest : PDFNetSample() {
init {
setTitle(R.string.sample_interactiveforms_title)
setDescription(R.string.sample_interactiveforms_description)
}
override fun run(outputListener: OutputListener?) {
super.run(outputListener)
mOutputListener = outputListener
mFileList.clear()
printHeader(outputListener!!)
// string input_path = "../../TestFiles/";
// The vector used to store the name and count of all fields.
// This is used later on to clone the fields
val field_names = HashMap<String, Int>()
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example 1: Programatically create new Form Fields and Widget Annotations.
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
try {
val doc = PDFDoc()
// Create a blank new page and add some form fields.
val blank_page = doc.pageCreate()
// Text Widget Creation
// Create an empty text widget with black text.
val text1 = TextWidget.create(doc, Rect(110.0, 700.0, 380.0, 730.0))
text1.text = "Basic Text Field"
text1.refreshAppearance()
blank_page.annotPushBack(text1)
// Create a vertical text widget with blue text and a yellow background.
val text2 = TextWidget.create(doc, Rect(50.0, 400.0, 90.0, 730.0))
text2.rotation = 90
// Set the text content.
text2.text = " ****Lucky Stars!****"
// Set the font type, text color, font size, border color and background color.
text2.font = Font.create(doc, Font.e_helvetica_oblique)
text2.fontSize = 28.0
text2.setTextColor(ColorPt(0.0, 0.0, 1.0), 3)
text2.setBorderColor(ColorPt(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), 3)
text2.setBackgroundColor(ColorPt(1.0, 1.0, 0.0), 3)
text2.refreshAppearance()
// Add the annotation to the page.
blank_page.annotPushBack(text2)
// Create two new text widget with Field names employee.name.first and employee.name.last
// This logic shows how these widgets can be created using either a field name string or
// a Field object
val text3 = TextWidget.create(doc, Rect(110.0, 660.0, 380.0, 690.0), "employee.name.first")
text3.text = "Levi"
text3.font = Font.create(doc, Font.e_times_bold)
text3.refreshAppearance()
blank_page.annotPushBack(text3)
val emp_last_name = doc.fieldCreate("employee.name.last", Field.e_text, "Ackerman")
val text4 = TextWidget.create(doc, Rect(110.0, 620.0, 380.0, 650.0), emp_last_name)
text4.font = Font.create(doc, Font.e_times_bold)
text4.refreshAppearance()
blank_page.annotPushBack(text4)
// Signature Widget Creation (unsigned)
val signature1 = SignatureWidget.create(doc, Rect(110.0, 560.0, 260.0, 610.0))
signature1.refreshAppearance()
blank_page.annotPushBack(signature1)
// CheckBox Widget Creation
// Create a check box widget that is not checked.
val check1 = CheckBoxWidget.create(doc, Rect(140.0, 490.0, 170.0, 520.0))
check1.refreshAppearance()
blank_page.annotPushBack(check1)
// Create a check box widget that is checked.
val check2 = CheckBoxWidget.create(doc, Rect(190.0, 490.0, 250.0, 540.0), "employee.name.check1")
check2.setBackgroundColor(ColorPt(1.0, 1.0, 1.0), 3)
check2.setBorderColor(ColorPt(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), 3)
// Check the widget (by default it is unchecked).
check2.isChecked = true
check2.refreshAppearance()
blank_page.annotPushBack(check2)
// PushButton Widget Creation
val pushbutton1 = PushButtonWidget.create(doc, Rect(380.0, 490.0, 520.0, 540.0))
pushbutton1.setTextColor(ColorPt(1.0, 1.0, 1.0), 3)
pushbutton1.fontSize = 36.0
pushbutton1.setBackgroundColor(ColorPt(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), 3)
// Add a caption for the pushbutton.
pushbutton1.staticCaptionText = "PushButton"
pushbutton1.refreshAppearance()
blank_page.annotPushBack(pushbutton1)
// ComboBox Widget Creation
val combo1 = ComboBoxWidget.create(doc, Rect(280.0, 560.0, 580.0, 610.0))
// Add options to the combobox widget.
combo1.addOption("Combo Box No.1")
combo1.addOption("Combo Box No.2")
combo1.addOption("Combo Box No.3")
// Make one of the options in the combo box selected by default.
combo1.selectedOption = "Combo Box No.2"
combo1.setTextColor(ColorPt(1.0, 0.0, 0.0), 3)
combo1.fontSize = 28.0
combo1.refreshAppearance()
blank_page.annotPushBack(combo1)
// ListBox Widget Creation
val list1 = ListBoxWidget.create(doc, Rect(400.0, 620.0, 580.0, 730.0))
// Add one option to the listbox widget.
list1.addOption("List Box No.1")
// Add multiple options to the listbox widget in a batch.
val list_options = arrayOf("List Box No.2", "List Box No.3")
list1.addOptions(list_options)
// Select some of the options in list box as default options
list1.selectedOptions = list_options
// Enable list box to have multi-select when editing.
list1.field.setFlag(Field.e_multiselect, true)
list1.font = Font.create(doc, Font.e_times_italic)
list1.setTextColor(ColorPt(1.0, 0.0, 0.0), 3)
list1.fontSize = 28.0
list1.setBackgroundColor(ColorPt(1.0, 1.0, 1.0), 3)
list1.refreshAppearance()
blank_page.annotPushBack(list1)
// RadioButton Widget Creation
// Create a radio button group and add three radio buttons in it.
val radio_group = RadioButtonGroup.create(doc, "RadioGroup")
val radiobutton1 = radio_group.add(Rect(140.0, 410.0, 190.0, 460.0))
radiobutton1.setBackgroundColor(ColorPt(1.0, 1.0, 0.0), 3)
radiobutton1.refreshAppearance()
val radiobutton2 = radio_group.add(Rect(310.0, 410.0, 360.0, 460.0))
radiobutton2.setBackgroundColor(ColorPt(0.0, 1.0, 0.0), 3)
radiobutton2.refreshAppearance()
val radiobutton3 = radio_group.add(Rect(480.0, 410.0, 530.0, 460.0))
// Enable the third radio button. By default the first one is selected
radiobutton3.enableButton()
radiobutton3.setBackgroundColor(ColorPt(0.0, 1.0, 1.0), 3)
radiobutton3.refreshAppearance()
radio_group.addGroupButtonsToPage(blank_page)
// Custom push button annotation creation
val custom_pushbutton1 = PushButtonWidget.create(doc, Rect(260.0, 320.0, 360.0, 360.0))
// Set the annotation appearance.
custom_pushbutton1.setAppearance(createCustomButtonAppearance(doc, false), Annot.e_normal)
// Create 'SubmitForm' action. The action will be linked to the button.
val url = FileSpec.createURL(doc, "http://www.pdftron.com")
val button_action = Action.createSubmitForm(url)
// Associate the above action with 'Down' event in annotations action dictionary.
val annot_action = custom_pushbutton1.sdfObj.putDict("AA")
annot_action.put("D", button_action.sdfObj)
blank_page.annotPushBack(custom_pushbutton1)
// Add the page as the last page in the document.
doc.pagePushBack(blank_page)
// If you are not satisfied with the look of default auto-generated appearance
// streams you can delete "AP" entry from the Widget annotation and set
// "NeedAppearances" flag in AcroForm dictionary:
// doc.GetAcroForm().PutBool("NeedAppearances", true);
// This will force the viewer application to auto-generate new appearance streams
// every time the document is opened.
//
// Alternatively you can generate custom annotation appearance using ElementWriter
// and then set the "AP" entry in the widget dictionary to the new appearance
// stream.
//
// Yet another option is to pre-populate field entries with dummy text. When
// you edit the field values using PDFNet the new field appearances will match
// the old ones.
//doc.GetAcroForm().Put("NeedAppearances", new Bool(true));
doc.refreshFieldAppearances()
doc.save(Utils.createExternalFile("forms_test1.pdf", mFileList).absolutePath, SDFDoc.SaveMode.NO_FLAGS, null)
doc.close()
mOutputListener!!.println("Done.")
} catch (e: Exception) {
mOutputListener!!.printError(e.stackTrace)
}
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example 2:
// Fill-in forms / Modify values of existing fields.
// Traverse all form fields in the document (and print out their names).
// Search for specific fields in the document.
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
try {
val doc = PDFDoc(Utils.createExternalFile("forms_test1.pdf", mFileList).absolutePath)
doc.initSecurityHandler()
val itr = doc.fieldIterator
while (itr.hasNext()) {
val current = itr.next()!!
val cur_field_name = current.getName()
// Add one to the count for this field name for later processing
if (field_names.containsKey(cur_field_name)) {
field_names[cur_field_name] = field_names[cur_field_name]!! + 1
} else {
field_names[cur_field_name] = 1
}
mOutputListener!!.println("Field name: " + current.getName())
mOutputListener!!.println("Field partial name: " + current.getPartialName())
mOutputListener!!.print("Field type: ")
val type = current.getType()
val str_val = current.getValueAsString()
when (type) {
Field.e_button -> mOutputListener!!.println("Button")
Field.e_radio -> mOutputListener!!.println("Radio button: Value = $str_val")
Field.e_check -> {
current.setValue(true)
mOutputListener!!.println("Check box: Value = $str_val")
}
Field.e_text -> {
mOutputListener!!.println("Text")
// Edit all variable text in the document
val old_value: String
if (current.getValue() != null) {
old_value = current.getValueAsString()
current.setValue("This is a new value. The old one was: $old_value")
}
}
Field.e_choice -> mOutputListener!!.println("Choice")
Field.e_signature -> mOutputListener!!.println("Signature")
}
mOutputListener!!.println("------------------------------")
}
// Search for a specific field
val f = doc.getField("employee.name.first")
if (f != null) {
mOutputListener!!.println("Field search for " + f.name + " was successful")
} else {
mOutputListener!!.println("Field search failed")
}
// Regenerate field appearances.
doc.refreshFieldAppearances()
doc.save(Utils.createExternalFile("forms_test_edit.pdf", mFileList).absolutePath, SDFDoc.SaveMode.NO_FLAGS, null)
doc.close()
mOutputListener!!.println("Done.")
} catch (e: Exception) {
mOutputListener!!.printError(e.stackTrace)
}
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Sample: Form templating
// Replicate pages and form data within a document. Then rename field names to make
// them unique.
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
try {
// Sample: Copying the page with forms within the same document
val doc = PDFDoc(Utils.createExternalFile("forms_test1.pdf", mFileList).absolutePath)
doc.initSecurityHandler()
val src_page = doc.getPage(1) as Page
doc.pagePushBack(src_page) // Append several copies of the first page
doc.pagePushBack(src_page) // Note that forms are successfully copied
doc.pagePushBack(src_page)
doc.pagePushBack(src_page)
// Now we rename fields in order to make every field unique.
// You can use this technique for dynamic template filling where you have a 'master'
// form page that should be replicated, but with unique field names on every page.
for (cur_field in field_names.keys) {
renameAllFields(doc, cur_field, field_names[cur_field]!!)
}
doc.save(Utils.createExternalFile("forms_test1_cloned.pdf", mFileList).absolutePath, SDFDoc.SaveMode.NO_FLAGS, null)
doc.close()
mOutputListener!!.println("Done.")
} catch (e: Exception) {
mOutputListener!!.printError(e.stackTrace)
}
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Sample:
// Flatten all form fields in a document.
// Note that this sample is intended to show that it is possible to flatten
// individual fields. PDFNet provides a utility function PDFDoc.flattenAnnotations()
// that will automatically flatten all fields.
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
try {
val doc = PDFDoc(Utils.createExternalFile("forms_test1.pdf", mFileList).absolutePath)
doc.initSecurityHandler()
// Traverse all pages
if (true) {
doc.flattenAnnotations()
} else
// Manual flattening
{
val pitr = doc.pageIterator
while (pitr.hasNext()) {
val page = pitr.next()!!
for (i in page.getNumAnnots() - 1 downTo 0) {
val annot = page.getAnnot(i)
if (annot.type == Annot.e_Widget) {
annot.flatten(page)
}
}
}
}
doc.save(Utils.createExternalFile("forms_test1_flattened.pdf", mFileList).absolutePath, SDFDoc.SaveMode.NO_FLAGS, null)
doc.close()
mOutputListener!!.println("Done.")
} catch (e: Exception) {
mOutputListener!!.printError(e.stackTrace)
}
for (file in mFileList) {
addToFileList(file)
}
printFooter(outputListener)
}
companion object {
private var mOutputListener: OutputListener? = null
private val mFileList = ArrayList<String>()
// field_nums has to be greater than 0.
@Throws(PDFNetException::class)
internal fun renameAllFields(doc: PDFDoc, name: String, field_nums: Int) {
var itr = doc.getFieldIterator(name)
var counter = 1
while (itr.hasNext()) {
val f = itr.next()!!
val update_count = java.lang.Math.ceil(counter / field_nums.toDouble()).toInt()
f.rename("$name-$update_count")
itr = doc.getFieldIterator(name)
++counter
}
}
@Throws(PDFNetException::class)
internal fun createCustomButtonAppearance(doc: PDFDoc, button_down: Boolean): Obj {
// Create a button appearance stream ------------------------------------
val build = ElementBuilder()
val writer = ElementWriter()
writer.begin(doc)
// Draw background
var element = build.createRect(0.0, 0.0, 101.0, 37.0)
element.setPathFill(true)
element.setPathStroke(false)
element.gState.fillColorSpace = ColorSpace.createDeviceGray()
element.gState.fillColor = ColorPt(0.75, 0.0, 0.0)
writer.writeElement(element)
// Draw 'Submit' text
writer.writeElement(build.createTextBegin())
run {
val text = "Submit"
element = build.createTextRun(text, Font.create(doc, Font.e_helvetica_bold), 12.0)
element.gState.fillColor = ColorPt(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
if (button_down)
element.setTextMatrix(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 33.0, 10.0)
else
element.setTextMatrix(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 30.0, 13.0)
writer.writeElement(element)
}
writer.writeElement(build.createTextEnd())
val stm = writer.end()
// Set the bounding box
stm.putRect("BBox", 0.0, 0.0, 101.0, 37.0)
stm.putName("Subtype", "Form")
return stm
}
}
}