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Topic: Formfields on landscape paper

Posted By: conner
Subject: Formfields on landscape paper
Date Posted: 18 Nov 09 at 1:13PM

Hi, I have a problem with form fields on rotated pages. Whenever the page is vertical (0 or 180 degrees rotated) the form fields boundaries returned by GetFormFieldBound are correct (I draw a colored rectangle on top of the formfields to verify), but when using landscape they are all misplaced.

Any suggestions why this happens? The pages have margins? Noticed that PageWidth seems to return the Height of the document when rotated 90 degrees, but didnt do the trick.

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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 18 Nov 09 at 3:33PM

Hi!

That's normal if the page was created as portrait and later rotated to landscape.
You can check this in the pdf-source directly searching for "rotated".
The values are in this case only on other parameters (it's only changed... so no real problem but you should know it ;-)
I've told this already to Rowan (Debenu) and i think it will be changed soon.

Cheers, Ingo

Posted By: conner
Date Posted: 19 Nov 09 at 9:02AM

Got it working kinda... All rectangles are now placed above the actual form fields, however i had to set origin to BottomLeft for a 90 degree rotated paper, but think it actually should have been TopRight.

    case QPDF.PageRotation of
      0: FQPDF.SetOrigin(1); // TopLeft
      90: FQPDF.SetOrigin(0); // BottomLeft, think it ought to be TopRight

      180: FQPDF.SetOrigin(3); // BottomRight
      270: FQPDF.SetOrigin(2); // TopRight, think it ought to be BottomLeft though
    end;

But got another problem now, whenever i enter text into the form field, the text is misplaced. How can i control where the text is placed? though quickpdf just placed it in the formfield automatically... well its does for most of my documents, but still have problem with one of them.

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 19 Nov 09 at 10:16AM

Hi!

Please have a look in the reference what the options for SetOrigin mean.
The case "rotated" disorder this a little bit ... like i've told it already (Debenu knows it).
With "SetFormFieldValue" or "SetFormFieldValueByTitle" you can set the value wherever the field is. This doesn't matter. I've made few experiences the last time with rotated formfields and i've never had problems with wrong displayed values.

Cheers, Ingo