Write to Phone and Fax Fields in PDF document using ITEXT

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Hi all,

I am a newbie to using Itext API, so far it has been a nice experience, however I am currently being faced with a problem and would appreciate if anyone could help in to find the answers.

I am trying to write to an existing pdf (filling an existing pdf with data), the code works just fine, however I am unable to write to fields like "Phone" and "Fax" correctly. The fields like "phone" and "Fax" have something like this [( ) ] (exclude the [ ]) when i try to write into these fields the text which is displayed is something like this [( ) 2222232]. Can any one let me know how to fix this ?

Would appreciate your help.

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Anil Karamchandan

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can anyone throw some light on it please, below is the code and the explanation.

<%@ page import="com.itextpdf.text.Document" %>
<%@ page import="com.itextpdf.text.pdf.*" %>  
<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<html>
<%
HashMap data = new HashMap();
String readResponse = "";
String code = "";
String outurl = "";
	String uemail[] = new String[1]; 
 	String recordID = (String)request.getParameter("recordID");
 	String useremail = (String)request.getParameter("useremail");
 	uemail[0] = useremail;
	Result result = getResult(recordID);
	int resultCode = result.getCode();

if(resultCode != 1)
	{
	
	}
	else
	{
		Parameters resultParameters = result.getParameters();
                HashMap readMap = readResult(resultParameters);
                readMap = getFormData(readMap);  
                ServletContext context = getServletContext();
	        String templatePath = context.getRealPath("/pdfdocs");
	        com.platform.c892085391.pdf.PdfUtils utils = new com.platform.c892085391.pdf.PdfUtils();
	        String fileName = utils.getFileName();
		PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(templatePath + "/8655.pdf"); 
		    	
		    	try {
		    	       String outputfileName = 	templatePath + "/output/"+fileName+".pdf";
			       PdfStamper stamp = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(outputfileName)); 
			       AcroFields form = stamp.getAcroFields(); 
			       HashMap fields = new HashMap();                
			       fields = form.getFields();
			       form.setField("f1_10(0)",(String)readMap.get("phone"));
			       form.setField("f1_12(0)",(String)readMap.get("fax"));
			       form.setField("f1_01(0)",(String)readMap.get("name"));
			       stamp.setFormFlattening(true);
			       stamp.close();
			       com.platform.c892085391.pdf.PDFSendeMail sendmail = new com.platform.c892085391.pdf.PDFSendeMail();
			       sendmail.processEmails(outputfileName,uemail);
			    }   
			catch(IOException e) {
			     out.println("Error: " + e);
			    }	   	
	       
	}
%>
 <body>
 </body>
 </html>

In the try block, I am trying to set the values for the pdf form i.e

, now say in the html I have a phone field which has a value (1234567890) in the pdf for the same phone field I will have ( ) 12345678 .

Can any one help me with this.

Anil Karamchandan

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got the answer, actually in pdf ( ) - is one field while the remaining number is the other field, thus there are 2 fields to complete one phone number - same goes with fax.

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