I have created simple PDF document with 3 labels: First Name, Last Name and Photo. Then I added AcroForm layer with 2 'Text Fields' and one 'Image Field' using Adobe Acrobat PRO DC.
So if I want to fill up the form I can open this PDF file in regular Acrobat Reader and fill up by typing First Name, Last Name and in order to insert Photo I click on image placeholder and select photo in opened Dialog Window.
But how can I do same thing programmatically? Created simple Java Application that uses Apache PDFBox library (version 2.0.7) to find form fields and insert values.
I can easily populate Text Edit field, but can not figure out how can I insert image:
public class AcroFormPopulator {
public static void main(String[] args) {
AcroFormPopulator abd = new AcroFormPopulator();
try {
abd.populateAndCopy("test.pdf", "generated.pdf");
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private void populateAndCopy(String originalPdf, String targetPdf) throws IOException {
File file = new File(originalPdf);
PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(file);
PDAcroForm acroForm = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
Map<String, String> data = new HashMap<>();
data.put("firstName", "Mike");
data.put("lastName", "Taylor");
data.put("photo_af_image", "photo.jpeg");
for (Map.Entry<String, String> item : data.entrySet()) {
PDField field = acroForm.getField(item.getKey());
if (field != null) {
if (field instanceof PDTextField) {
field.setValue(item.getValue());
} else if (field instanceof PDPushButton) {
File imageFile = new File(item.getValue());
PDPushButton pdPushButton = (PDPushButton) field;
// do not see way to isert image
} else {
System.err.println("No field found with name:" + item.getKey());
}
} else {
System.err.println("No field found with name:" + item.getKey());
}
}
document.save(targetPdf);
document.close();
System.out.println("Populated!");
}
}
I have distinguished a weird thing - in Acrobat Pro DC it says that I add Image Field, but the only field I get by generated name: 'photo_af_image' is of type button - PDPushButton (that is why I check if (field instanceof PDPushButton)), but is nothing to do with Image.
How can I insert image to AcroForm 'photo_af_image' field, so that it will fit the size of a box created af Acrobat Pro DC?
