No, that's not true. The field's border color is visible regardless of that setting in Reader.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Kevin Ternes <kter...@thegeneral.com> wrote: > 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 > >
