Bingo. Thanks Paulo.

Paulo Soares wrote:
> For that to work you'll have to call
> AcroFields.setGenerateAppearances(false). Note that older Reader versions
> don't generate appearances.
>
> Paulo
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Gonyea" <mlgsolutions@(protected)>
> To: <itext-questions@(protected)>
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:09 PM
> Subject: [iText-questions] PDFStamper and AcroForm rich text (xml
> formatting)
>
>
>  
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been asked to dive into the iText source in order to allow for the
>> flattening of rich text fields on our PDF forms (currently, iText simply
>> stamps the XML code into the field).
>>
>> Now one solution I thought of would be to simply use
>> partialFormFlattening(fieldName) on fields not containing the rich text
>> formatting, and then setting the rich text fields to "read-only" (via
>> AcroFields.setFieldProperty(...)); however, this doesn't work - it still
>> stamps the actual XML code onto the field and the Reader will not render
>> it as rich text in the stamped PDF.
>>
>> Please visit the code I've written below and feel free to point out any
>> errors/omissions I have made when trying to accomplish this, or if I'm
>> failing to understand the usage of the methods outlined in the
>> Documentation. (Please note, as suggested in some current iText archive
>> articles, I've also attempted this with a call to setField(name,value)
>> after the setFieldProperty() statement with the same results). I'm
>> using the most recent SVN version of the iText source compiled via
>> Eclipse 3.2.2.
>>
>>       // Prepare FDF/PDF reader objects
>>        FdfReader inFDF = new FdfReader(inFDFFilename);
>>        PdfReader inPDF = new PdfReader(inPDFFilename);
>>
>>        // create our stamper instance
>>        PdfStamper stp = new PdfStamper(inPDF, new
>> FileOutputStream(outPDFFilename));
>>
>>        // set form flattening flag
>>        stp.setFormFlattening(true);
>>
>>        // Merge the FDF data into the PDF
>>        AcroFields af = stp.getAcroFields();
>>        af.setFields(inFDF);
>>
>>        // Iterate through the list of fields
>>        HashMap hm = af.getFields();
>>        Iterator i = hm.keySet().iterator();
>>        while (i.hasNext()) {
>>           String fieldName = (String)i.next();
>>           String fieldData = af.getField(fieldName);
>>
>>           if (fieldData.indexOf("<?xml") >= 0) {
>>             // System.out.println("xml data found in "+fieldName);
>>             // simply mark this field as "read-only" but keep
>> everything intact
>>             // so that the client's Reader can render the
>> XML/rich text formatting itself
>>             af.setFieldProperty(fieldName, "setfflags",
>> PdfFormField.FF_READ_ONLY, null);
>> //             af.setField(fieldName, fieldData);
>>           } else {
>>             // this field can be flattened
>>             stp.partialFormFlattening(fieldName);
>>           }
>>        }
>>
>>        // close the stamper
>>        stp.close();
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>  
>
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