/** * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to the following question: * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27206327/itext-add-new-acrofields-form-feilds-in-to-a-pdf-using-itext */ package sandbox.acroforms; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.GrayColor; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfAction; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfFormField; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfStamper; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PushbuttonField; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import sandbox.WrapToTest; @WrapToTest public class AddField { public static final String SRC = "resources/pdfs/form.pdf"; public static final String DEST = "results/acroforms/field_added.pdf"; public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException, IOException { File file = new File(DEST); file.getParentFile().mkdirs(); new AddField().manipulatePdf(SRC, DEST); } public void manipulatePdf(String src, String dest) throws DocumentException, IOException { PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src); PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(dest)); PushbuttonField button = new PushbuttonField( stamper.getWriter(), new Rectangle(36, 700, 72, 730), "post"); button.setText("POST"); button.setBackgroundColor(new GrayColor(0.7f)); button.setVisibility(PushbuttonField.VISIBLE_BUT_DOES_NOT_PRINT); PdfFormField submit = button.getField(); submit.setAction(PdfAction.createSubmitForm( "http://itextpdf.com:8180/book/request", null, PdfAction.SUBMIT_HTML_FORMAT | PdfAction.SUBMIT_COORDINATES)); stamper.addAnnotation(submit, 1); stamper.close(); } }