/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.pdfbox.examples.interactive.form; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDCheckBox; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDComboBox; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDListBox; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDRadioButton; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField; /** * This example will take a PDF document and set a form field in it. * * @author Ben Litchfield * */ public class SetField { /** * This will set a single field in the document. * * @param pdfDocument The PDF to set the field in. * @param name The name of the field to set. * @param value The new value of the field. * * @throws IOException If there is an error setting the field. */ public void setField(PDDocument pdfDocument, String name, String value) throws IOException { PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog(); PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm(); PDField field = acroForm.getField(name); if (field != null) { if (field instanceof PDCheckBox) { field.setValue("Yes"); } else if (field instanceof PDComboBox) { field.setValue(value); } else if (field instanceof PDListBox) { field.setValue(value); } else if (field instanceof PDRadioButton) { field.setValue(value); } else if (field instanceof PDTextField) { field.setValue(value); } } else { System.err.println("No field found with name:" + name); } } /** * This will read a PDF file and set a field and then write it the pdf out * again. <br> * see usage() for commandline * * @param args command line arguments * * @throws IOException If there is an error importing the FDF document. */ public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { SetField setter = new SetField(); setter.setField(args); } private void setField(String[] args) throws IOException { PDDocument pdf = null; try { if (args.length != 3) { usage(); } else { SetField example = new SetField(); pdf = PDDocument.load(new File(args[0])); example.setField(pdf, args[1], args[2]); pdf.save(args[0]); } } finally { if (pdf != null) { pdf.close(); } } } /** * This will print out a message telling how to use this example. */ private static void usage() { System.err.println("usage: org.apache.pdfbox.examples.interactive.form.SetField <pdf-file> <field-name> <field-value>"); } }