Either just draw the box there, or include it in the appearance stream
of the field, see the first three lines here:
0 G
0.5 0.5 149 55.692 re
s
/Tx BMC
q
1 1 148 54.692 re
W
n
BT
/Arial 8 Tf
2 44.0475 Td
(Lorem ) Tj
24.896 0 Td
(ipsum ) Tj
(...)
ET
Q
EMC
However this requires some understanding about the PDF specifications...
the best is to look at the examples that create a PDF and write to the
content stream.
Tilman
Am 05.08.2015 um 20:05 schrieb Kevin Ternes:
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
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