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john
john

Reputation: 787

PDFbox set visible when printing

I am working with PDFBOX and the documentation on it seems sparse so I've come here for some help. I am trying to print out a pdf form that I've created, with fields populated dynamically by eclipse. I can get it to import and print, but when I do print, the fields I've set don't show up (although they do when I save it to HDD). Can someone point me to the settings to set visible when printing? I saw itext had something similar, and I'm hoping that PDFBox does too.

Here is my current code. 

PDDocument doc = null;

   try{
        doc = PDDocument.load("resources/orderForm.pdf");
        PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = doc.getDocumentCatalog();
        PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm();
        PDField field = acroForm.getField("Orderer");
        field.setValue("JohnTest");

} catch (IOException ie){
    System.out.println(ie);
}
//doc.addPage(new PDPage());
try{

    //doc.save("Empty PDF.pdf");
    doc.silentPrint();
    //doc.print();
    doc.close();
} catch (Exception io){
    System.out.println(io);
}

}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1111

Answers (1)

john
john

Reputation: 787

found my answer, can't use pdfbox to do it, although the alternative is just as simple. Use the desktop to print the file! example code as follows

    public void printOrder(){
    try {
        File myFile = new File(finished);
        //Desktop.getDesktop().open(myFile);
        Desktop.getDesktop().print(myFile);
        doc.close();
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        // no application registered for PDFs
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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