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Muddassir Awan
Muddassir Awan

Reputation: 89

Getting form field font information in itext7

I am parsing a PDF document using itext7. I have fetched all the form fields from the document using AcroForm, but I am unable to get font associated with the field using GetFont method. I also tried to parse /DA dictionary but it returns as a PDFString. Is there any way around to get font information or I have to parse /DA dictionary

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2000

Answers (1)

mkl
mkl

Reputation: 95983

Actually iText 7 does have a method to determine form field font information, it's needed for generating form field appearances after all: PdfFormField.getFontAndSize(PdfDictionary).

Unfortunately this method is protected, so one has to cheat a bit to access it, e.g. one can derive one's own form field class from it and make the method public therein:

class PdfFormFieldExt extends PdfFormField {
    public PdfFormFieldExt(PdfDictionary pdfObject) {
        super(pdfObject);
    }

    public Object[] getFontAndSize(PdfDictionary asNormal) throws IOException {
        return super.getFontAndSize(asNormal);
    }
}

(from test class DetermineFormFieldFonts)

Using this class we can extract font information like this:

try (   PdfReader pdfReader = new PdfReader(PDF_SOURCE);
        PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(pdfReader)    ) {
    PdfAcroForm form = PdfAcroForm.getAcroForm(pdfDocument, false);
    for (Entry<String, PdfFormField> entry : form.getFormFields().entrySet()) {
        String fieldName = entry.getKey();
        PdfFormField field = entry.getValue();
        System.out.printf("%s - %s\n", fieldName, field.getFont());

        PdfFormFieldExt extField = new PdfFormFieldExt(field.getPdfObject());
        Object[] fontAndSize = extField.getFontAndSize(field.getWidgets().get(0).getNormalAppearanceObject());
        PdfFont font = (PdfFont) fontAndSize[0];
        Float size = (Float) fontAndSize[1];
        PdfName resourceName = (PdfName) fontAndSize[2];
        System.out.printf("%s - %s - %s - %s\n", Strings.repeat(" ", fieldName.length()),
                font.getFontProgram().getFontNames(), size, resourceName);
    }
}

(DetermineFormFieldFonts test test)

Applied to this sample document with some text fields, one gets:

TextAdobeThai - null
              - AdobeThai-Regular - 12.0 - /AdobeThai-Regular
TextArial - null
          - Arial - 12.0 - /Arial
TextHelvetica - null
              - Helvetica - 12.0 - /Helv
TextWingdings - null
              - Wingdings - 12.0 - /Wingdings

As you can see, while PdfFormField.getFont() always returns null, PdfFormField.getFontAndSize(PdfDictionary) returns sensible information.

Tested using the current iText for Java development branch, 7.1.5-SNAPSHOT

Upvotes: 2

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