Right. But that works only if the Highlight Existing Fields option on Adobe Reader is selected. It seems like I could put a colored box around the field that would appear on the screen independent of the field.
-----Original Message----- From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:thaush...@t-online.de] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 12:20 PM To: users@pdfbox.apache.org Subject: Re: Draw a colored box around a PDField? Am 05.08.2015 um 18:00 schrieb Kevin Ternes: > For a given document and field name, it seems like a simple matter to draw a > colored box around the contents of the field. But I cannot figure out how to > do it. So far, I have the following. But where do I go from here? > > PDDocumentCatalog catalog = pdDocument.getDocumentCatalog(); > PDAcroForm pdAcroForm = catalog.getAcroForm(); PDField pdField = > pdAcroForm.getField(fieldName); COSDictionary pdFieldDictionary = > pdField.getDictionary(); > > PDAnnotationTextMarkup pdatMarkup = new > PDAnnotationTextMarkup(PDAnnotationSquareCircle.SUB_TYPE_SQUARE); > pdatMarkup.setColour(borderPdGamma); > see the reply here: http://qnalist.com/questions/4842300/form-elements-not-visible --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
