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Searching Fields and Watermarks on Images.

Question:  Does it have to be form fields?  Can you use regular text instead?  With a PdfStamper, you could get the page's "under content" and write your text there.


If you're stuck with a form field, I've got some good news, and some bad news.

Bad News: Form fields can't be underneath anything directly on a page.  All form fields 'hover' over their pages.

Good News: Field data is included in a text search.  I'm not sure, but I don't think this was always the case.

More Bad News: A field with the 'hidden' flag set isn't included in the search.

More Good News:  There is a text 'Render Mode' that is invisible but still selectable.

Even More Bad News:  iText doesn't support rendering form text with a custom render mode (at least not the version I use, but it's a little old).  It could be adapted to do so, but won't out of the box.

And the bad news keeps coming:  Acrobat 7 ignores the 'render mode' in a field's default appearances.


So there are two ways the form field angle will work:
1) The text appears on a solid background so you can set the text color to match it.  The text will then be "invisible".
2) You are overwriting some text on the TIFF and can match it's possition.  Hiding in plain sight.
3) You can use the TIFF image as the 'icon' for a button field.  Fields can be stacked on top of one another, so you can put your text field under the TIFF in a button.



Using regular text would be much easier.


--Mark Storer 
  Senior Software Engineer 
  Cardiff.com

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> [mailto:itext-questions-bounces (at) lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of
> Phanindra Mankale
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> Subject: [iText-questions] Searching Fields and Watermarks on Images.
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> Hello,
> 
> I am creating a PDF document using a Tiff Image. and this is 
> okay.  I now need to mark certain parts of this image drawing 
> lines. This is also okay. I could do this easily using 
> itextSharp ( many thanks!)
> 
> I now need to have hidden form fields with some words under 
> these marked parts How do I do this??
> Also these words should be searchable. is this possible??
> 
> Thanks
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> ----- Original Message ----
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> The servlet use encoding UTF-8 and you are probably using 
> ISO-8859-1 or the default platform one. Use the appropriate 
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> Paulo
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> > Hello,
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> > I have a problem with accents when I generate a pdf from a 
> > servlet. Special
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