Reputation: 610
I'm using iTextSharp to fill PDF form template. I have many form fields in a pdf template. Then the software fills the fields and save the template to a new file. But, the fields in the new PDF file are no longer editable.
I want to have some of the fields still editable after calling AcroFields.SetField, is that possible?
Thanks for any answers or suggestions.
Upvotes: 0
Views: 3117
Reputation: 2297
Call FormFlattening on the PDFStamper object.
' flatten the form to remove editting options, set it to false
' to leave the form open to subsequent manual edits
pdfStamper.FormFlattening = False
Test code - path for master is in form's title:
Private Sub Button2_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim newFile As String = Me.Text.Replace(".pdf", "_Out.pdf")
' create w/overwrite copy of the template
Dim pdfReader As New PdfReader(pdfTemplate)
Dim pdfStamper As New PdfStamper(pdfReader, New FileStream(newFile, FileMode.Create))
pdfFormFields = pdfStamper.AcroFields
' set form pdfFormFields ' field names are case sensitive
pdfFormFields.SetField("NAME", "Firstname Lastname")
pdfFormFields.SetField("PHONE", "805.555.1212")
'' report by reading values from completed PDF
Dim sTmp As String = "Completed: " + pdfFormFields.GetField("NAME") + " " + _
pdfFormFields.GetField("PHONE")
MessageBox.Show(sTmp, "Finished")
' flatten the form to remove editting options, set it to false
' to leave the form open to subsequent manual edits
pdfStamper.FormFlattening = False
' close the pdf
pdfStamper.Close()
End Sub
VB Project needs reference to itextsharp.dll (in my case \itextsharp-all-5.3.4\itextsharp.dll) and at top:
Imports iTextSharp.text
Imports iTextSharp.text.pdf
Upvotes: 1