form_fields/form_textfield_height
Determine the height of a form field of type "textfield" with respect to the font size and vice versa.
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/*
* Form text field height:
* Determine the height of a form field of type "textfield" with respect to
* the font size and vice versa
*
* Create a text field with a defined field height and no font size specified.
* Create a text field with a defined field height and calculate the
* appropriate font size from the field height. Create a text field with a
* defined font size and calculate the appropriate field height from the font
* size.
*
* 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_textfield_height
{
public static void main (String argv[])
{
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary */
String searchpath = "../input";
String outfile = "form_textfield_height.pdf";
String title = "Form Textfield Height";
pdflib p = null;
int exitcode = 0;
String optlist;
int font;
double fontsize;
double ascender, descender;
double width=160, height=30;
double llx = 10, lly = 700;
String text = "Enter text here";
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());
p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* ------------------------------------------
* Field height given. No font size specified
* ------------------------------------------
*
* Create a form field of type "textfield" called "date".
* Provide it with a light blue background and a black border.
* Allow a maximum of 25 characters to be entered (maxchar=20).
* If we don't supply any further options the font size will be
* automatically adjusted to ensure the text being completely fit into
* the text field. This means that the text get smaller when entering
* more text.
*/
optlist = "backgroundcolor={rgb 0.95 0.95 1} bordercolor={gray 0} " +
"maxchar=25 currentvalue={" + text + "} font=" + font;
p.create_field(llx, lly, llx + width, lly + height, "date", "textfield",
optlist);
lly-=40;
p.fit_textline("Field height given, no font size specified; a " +
"maximum of 25 characters is allowed.", llx, lly, "font=" + font +
" fontsize=12");
p.fit_textline("Acrobat automatically decreases the font size when " +
"more text is entered.", llx, lly-=20, "font=" + font +
" fontsize=12");
lly-=100;
/* ---------------------------------------------------
* Field height given. Calculate appropriate font size
* ---------------------------------------------------
*/
/* Create another text field "date2" of a given size. Adjust the font
* size to match the field height: Retrieve the ascender and the
* descender (the latter is usually negative) of a hypothetical font
* size equal to the field height and use the font size resulting from
* the sum of ascender and (positive) descender as a starting point.
* Then, descrease the font size by e.g. 20% to leave some empty space
* from the field borders.
*/
ascender = p.info_font(font, "ascender", "fontsize=" + height);
descender = p.info_font(font, "descender", "fontsize=" + height);
fontsize = (ascender - descender) * 0.8;
optlist = "backgroundcolor={rgb 0.95 0.95 1} bordercolor={gray 0} " +
"currentvalue={" + text + "} font=" + font + " fontsize=" + fontsize;
p.create_field(llx, lly, llx + width, lly + height, "date2",
"textfield", optlist);
lly-=40;
p.fit_textline("Field height of 30 is given. Acrobat uses an " +
"appropriate font size.", llx, lly, "font=" + font +
" fontsize=12");
lly-=100;
/* --------------------------------------------------------
* Font size given. Calculate appropriate field height size
* --------------------------------------------------------
*/
/* Create another text field "date3". In this case, the font size is
* given as a fixed value of 24 and the field height should be chosen
* appropriately: Retrieve the ascender and descender (which is usually
* negative) of the font size 24. The resulting value will be a good
* starting point for determining the field height, for example.
*
* Since the behaviour of Acrobat regarding the chosen font and
* baseline is not obvious, the field height will be too small in many
* cases. To avoid that we add a margin of an appropriate percentage of
* the field height, e.g. 50%.
*/
ascender = p.info_font(font, "ascender", "fontsize=24");
descender = p.info_font(font, "descender", "fontsize=24");
height = (ascender - descender) * 1.5;
optlist = "backgroundcolor={rgb 0.95 0.95 1} bordercolor={gray 0} " +
"currentvalue={" + text + "} font=" + font + " fontsize=24";
p.create_field(llx, lly, llx + width, lly + height, "date3",
"textfield", optlist);
lly-=40;
p.fit_textline("Font size of 24 is given. We calculate the field " +
"height based on the font's ascender and descender.", llx, lly,
"font=" + font + " fontsize=12");
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);
}
}
}