activePDF KB #10681 - Edit form field properties using Toolkit 4.0 Professional

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activePDF KB #10681 - Edit form field properties using Toolkit 4.0 Professional

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Edit form field properties using Toolkit 4.0 Professional

Product

Version

Code Samples

Toolkit Pro

4.0

4.0 SR1

VBS

ASP

Description

The following VBScript example demonstrates how to edit individual form field properties using the Toolkit 4.0 Professional Edition's PDFFieldInfo object. These files are required:

Template.PDF - The template containing form fields for use as the input PDF.
Field-EditProperties.vbs - Code detail provided below.

Click here to download this example (includes required files):

' Variables
    ' Template and Output files
    varOutputFile = "output.pdf"
    varInputFile = "template.pdf"

    ' Field to edit variables
    varField = "field"
    varFieldInstance = "1"

    ' Field settings
    varBackgroundColor = "#EEEEEE"
    varBorderColor = "#000000"
    varTextColor = "#FF9966"
    varFontName = "Courier"
    varFontSize = 10
    varName = "NewField"
    varValue = "Hello World"

' Instantiate Object
Set TK = CreateObject("APToolkit.Object")

' OpenOutputFile
varReturn = TK.OpenOutputFile(varOutputFile)
If varReturn <> 0 Then Error("OpenOutputFile") End If

' OpenInputFile
varReturn = TK.OpenInputFile(varInputFile)
If varReturn <> 0 Then Error("OpenInputFile") End If

' Select the field to change
Set FIO = TK.FieldInfo(varField, varFieldInstance)

' Set the field properties
FIO.BackgroundColor = varBackgroundColor
FIO.BorderColor = varBorderColor
FIO.Color = varTextColor
FIO.FontName = varFontName
FIO.FontSize = varFontSize
FIO.Name = varName
FIO.Value = varValue

' Release the field info object
Set FIO = Nothing

' CopyForm
varReturn = TK.CopyForm (0, 0)
If varReturn <> 1 Then Error("CopyForm") End If

' CloseOutputFile
TK.CloseOutputFile

' Release Object
Set TK = Nothing

' Done
Msgbox "Success!"

' Error Handling
Sub Error(Method)
    Msgbox "'" & Method & "' failed with a '" & varReturn & _
            "'" & VBCRLF & "TK Return Codes:" & VBCRLF & _
            "http://www.activepdf.com/support/kb/?id=10670&tk=ts"
    Set objTK = Nothing
    Wscript.Quit
End Sub

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Last Updated 2006-08-23

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