Hi Tilman thanks for answering so fast! Actually showTextWithPositioning does the job! I had a bug in my code so it was not called! I realised it just after sending the email sorry! I am using an OCRB font which is fixed size I think
The PDF is not an acroform document, is just an image converted into a PDF, and I manually write on it (automating what a human user would do with paper and pen in a "physical" postal office ... ) >From your words I understand that using showTextWithPositioning is the right choice for this task.. thanks a lot Nicola Il giorno mer 31 gen 2024 alle ore 16:01 Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de> ha scritto: > > Hello Nicola, > > Please upload your PDF to a sharehoster, attachments are removed. > > showTextWithPositioning is for horizontal positioning of individual > glyphs, it is the "way to specify a string with some, I don't know, > offset between the chars". (or vertical, if it is a vertical font) > it might be tricky if you are using a propotional font. Please explain > "but the output was not the one I need" - what happened / what did you > expect to happen? > > I'm also wondering whether the PDF is an acroform document, what might > make things easier. > > Tilman > > On 31.01.2024 15:07, Nicola Farina wrote: > > Hi > > > > I need to produce a kind of form filled document like the attached one. > > My application receives a print request payload with all the fields of > > a kind of "payment postal order". > > Then a PDF document, containing the layout, is loaded. > > Then I fill it using PDFBox > > primitives, basically a sequence of: > > > > newLineAtOffset > > followed by > > showText > > > > In the attached example, though, there is a new requirement. > > There are some areas (I have encircled in red to better identify them) > > which I need to place a string whose characters must be inside boxes. > > I tried to use > > > > showTextWithPositioning > > > > preparing an array with each character followed by a number > > representing the interleaving space, but the output was not the one I > > need. > > > > Do I need to manually position each character and then move the cursor > > explicitly? > > Is there no way to specify a string with some, I don't know, offset > > between the chars? > > > > thanks! > > Bye > > Nicola > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
