I'm using PDFBox 1.8.x for filling out an acroform in a PDF document. For this, I'm iterating over all PDFields in the document and setting the correct values which are stored in my HashMap (aParameter).
PDAcroForm acroform = aTemplate.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
List fields = acroform.getFields();
for(int i=0; i<fields.size(); i++)
{
PDField field = (PDField) fields.get(i);
String lValue = aParameter.get(field.getPartialName());
if(lValue != null) field.setValue(lValue);
field.setReadonly(true);
}
It's working very great except for my one and only multiline textbox. In my resulting PDF, the correct text is in my multiline textbox, but without any new lines. While searching for reasons I found some very old answers that PDFBox doesn't support multilines, it can't set a new line character on it's own. Is this behavior still up to date? Or are there any possibilities to automatically break the text to a new line, when the width of the textbox is reached?
This answer looks like a solution, but they are using another technique (drawString) to write the PDF. Is there a possibility to modify this idea to match my behavior of filling out PDFields?
I'm happy about any ideas!
