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Create form fields of type "pushbutton" for executing the "Print" and "Save As" commands."

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/*
 * Form pushbutton:
 * Create two form fields of type "pushbutton" for executing the "Print" and
 * "Save As" commands.
 * 
 * Create two form fields of type "pushbutton". Define two actions which
 * execute the Acrobat menu commands "File/Print" or "File/Save As",
 * respectively. Perform the Print or Save As action when the user clicks the
 * respective field. Represent the buttons using a caption or using an image
 * loaded as a template.
 * 
 * Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 10
 * Required data: none
 */
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.form_fields;

import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;

public class form_pushbutton
{
    public static void main (String argv[])
    {
        /* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary */
        String searchpath = "../input";
        String outfile = "form_pushbutton.pdf";
        String title = "Form Pushbutton";
        
        pdflib p = null;
        int exitcode = 0;

        String optlist;
        String p_imagefile = "fileprint.jpg";
        String s_imagefile = "filesaveas.jpg"; 
        int font;
        double width=60, height=30, llx = 40, lly = 600;
        int pact, sact, pimg, simg;
        double pwidth, pheight, swidth, sheight;

        try {
            p = new pdflib();

            /* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */
            p.set_option("errorpolicy=return");

            p.set_option("searchpath={" + searchpath + "}");

            if (p.begin_document(outfile, "") == -1)
                throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());

            p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
            p.set_info("Title", title);

            font = p.load_font("NotoSerif-Regular", "winansi", 
                "simplefont nosubsetting");
            if (font == -1)
                throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
            
            /* Load the "Print" image as template */
            pimg = p.load_image("auto", p_imagefile, "templateoptions={}");
            if (pimg == -1)
                throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
            
            /* Load the "Save As" image as template */
            simg = p.load_image("auto", s_imagefile, "templateoptions={}");
            if (simg == -1)
                throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
            
            /* Create an action for executing the Acrobat command File/Print */
            pact = p.create_action("Named", "menuname=Print");
            
            /* Create an action for executing the Acrobat command File/Save As */
            sact = p.create_action("Named", "menuname=SaveAs");
            
            /* Start page */
            p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, " width=a4.width height=a4.height");
            
            p.setfont(font, 14);
            
            
            /* ------------------------------------------------------------
            * Create two pushbutton form fields for executing Acrobat menu 
            * commands and represent them using a caption
            * ------------------------------------------------------------
            */
            
            /* Output some descriptive text */
            p.fit_textline("Two buttons executing Acrobat menu commands and " +
                "represented by a caption:", llx, lly, "");
            lly-=60;
        
            /* Create the "print" and "save" form fields of type "pushbutton".
            * Provide the buttons with a light blue background
            * (backgroundcolor={rgb 0.95 0.95 1}) and 
            * a blue border (bordercolor={rgb 0.25 0 0.95}) with a default line
            * width of 1.
            * Supply a blue caption describing the menu command
            * (caption={Print} fillcolor={rgb 0.25 0 0.95}).
            * Define an individual tooltip for each button.
            * Supply the action defined above to be performed when the user
            * releases the mouse button inside the field's area
            * (action={up <actionhandle>}).
            * 
            */
            optlist = "bordercolor={rgb 0.25 0 0.95} " +
                "backgroundcolor={rgb 0.95 0.95 1} " +
                "fillcolor={rgb 0.25 0 0.95} font=" + font + " fontsize=14";
            
            p.create_field(llx, lly, llx + width, lly + height, "print",
                "pushbutton", optlist + " caption={Print} action={up " + pact + 
                "} tooltip={Print the document}");
            
            llx+=100;
            
            p.create_field(llx, lly, llx + width, lly + height, "save",
                "pushbutton", optlist + " caption={Save As} action={up " + sact + 
                "} tooltip={Save the document}");
            
            
            /* ------------------------------------------------------------
            * Create two pushbutton form fields for executing Acrobat menu 
            * commands and represent them using images
            * ------------------------------------------------------------
            */
            llx=40;
            lly=400;
            
            /* Output some descriptive text */
            p.fit_textline("Two buttons executing Acrobat menu commands and " +
                "represented by an image:", llx, lly, "");
            lly-=60;
            
            /* Get the width and height of the "Print" image */
            pwidth = p.info_image(pimg, "imagewidth", "");
            pheight = p.info_image(pimg, "imageheight", "");
            
            /* Get the width and height of the "Save" image */
            swidth = p.info_image(simg, "imagewidth", "");
            sheight = p.info_image(simg, "imageheight", "");
            
            /* Create a "printicon" and a "saveicon" form field of type
            * "pushbutton".
            * Calculate the button width based on a fixed button
            * height as well as the image proportions.
            * Supply the action defined above to be performed when the user
            * releases the mouse button inside the field's area
            * (action={up <actionhandle>}).
            * Provide the buttons with an image (icon=<imagehandle>).
            * Define an individual tooltip for each button.
            * Fit the image completely into the button rectangle: because of 
            * a particular behaviour of Acrobat we need to define a border color
            * and set the line width to zero. 
            * .
            */
            double pbuttonwidth = pwidth/pheight*height;
            
            p.create_field(llx, lly, llx + pbuttonwidth, lly + height, "printicon",
                "pushbutton", "action={up " + pact + "} icon=" + pimg +
                " tooltip={Print the document} bordercolor={gray 0} linewidth=0" +
                " font=" + font);
            
            llx+=100;
            
            double sbuttonwidth = swidth/sheight*height;
            
            p.create_field(llx, lly, llx + sbuttonwidth, lly + height, "saveicon",
                "pushbutton", "action={up " + sact + "} icon=" + simg +
                " tooltip={Save the document} bordercolor={gray 0} linewidth=0" +
                " font=" + font);
            
            p.close_image(pimg);
            p.close_image(simg);
            p.end_page_ext("");
            
            p.end_document("");

        } catch (PDFlibException e) {
            System.err.println("PDFlib exception occurred:");
            System.err.println("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname()
                + ": " + e.get_errmsg());
        exitcode = 1;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println(e);
        exitcode = 1;
        } finally {
            if (p != null) {
                p.delete();
            }
        System.exit(exitcode);
        }
    }
}