How do I get the pdf viewer to show me the textfields?

[Dominik]

The Fields in my pdf viewer are all collored white and they are not getting highlighted. As seen in example.png. I want to have the same behavior as in the example2.png.

 

Thanks for the help

[Dimitar]

Hi Dominic, 

How are you creating this document? Would it be possible to attach it here so we ca examine it? 

Thank you in advance for your patience and cooperation. 

[Dominik]

Hey Dimitar,

Yeah i can proviede them for you: https://easyupload.io/m/etkkyd

there is for one the pdf im importing them through the path with: new PdfDocumentSource(new Uri(filePath)); and then just let it show in the RadPdfViewer with pdfViewer.DocumentSource = mPdfDocumentSource;

The other file is a custom xml where there are fields with numbers to get Data from the database and at the top where is <File Encoding="Base64"> there is the pdffile with base64 encoding. The base 64 and the fields I am parsing the fields for the database and the pdf so ican use the telerik methodes at first

RadFixedDocument document = provider.Import(parseResult.PdfData.Span.ToArray());

Then im Iterating throught the fields in the pdf and set the field with the data from my database:

foreach (FormField formField in document.AcroForm.FormFields)
{
string fieldName = formField.Name;

// Check if it's a TextBox field and fill its value
if (formField is TextBoxField)
{
TextBoxField textBox = formField as TextBoxField;

if (textBox.Name == data[counter].Key)
{
textBox.Value = data[counter].Value;
}

 

after that im using the telerik export and convert it to a memory stream to make it usable for the new PdfDocumentSource(memorystream):

PdfFormatProvider provider = new PdfFormatProvider();

return provider.Export(document);

 

Hope that helps und you understand what im doing its a litle complicated but i have to work with the technology given to me.

 

thanks

[Dimitar]

Hello Dominik,

I was able to reproduce this and indeed it can be better handled in our control. I have logged this for improvement on your behalf. You can track its progress, subscribe to status changes, and add your comment to it here: PdfViewer: Provide a default appearance for fields that do not contain one.

As a workaround, I can suggest manually adding this:

var provider = new PdfFormatProvider();
var document = provider.Import(File.ReadAllBytes(@"..\..\..\Systemvariablen.pdf"));

foreach (var item in document.AcroForm.FormFields)
{ 
    var widget = item.Widgets.First() as VariableContentWidget;
     
    if (widget != null)
    { 
        widget.AppearanceCharacteristics.Background = new RgbColor(255, 0, 0);
        widget.AppearanceCharacteristics.BorderColor = new RgbColor(0, 0, 255);
        widget.Border = new AnnotationBorder(2, AnnotationBorderStyle.Solid, null);
      
        widget.RecalculateContent(); 
    }
}

pdfViewer.Document = document;

In addition, you can directly set the document without using PdfDocumetnSource (check the above snippet).

Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dimitar
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[Dominik]

Yeah it works thanks for the help

[Dominik]

Hey,

it does work and i added a twostatswidget (Combobox, Checkbox) for the checkbox it works as intendet but for the combobox it only collors the first (see in screenshot) one I might missed something where you need to loop through the combobox.

Here is the code i use to color:

public static void ColorFields(RadFixedDocument doc) // MAKE IT A Own Class
{
	foreach (var item in doc.AcroForm.FormFields)
	{
		var widget = item.Widgets.First();

		ColorSingleField(widget, new RgbColor(0, 0, 0), new RgbColor(64, 0, 0, 0));
	}
}

public static Widget ColorSingleField(Widget widget, RgbColor rgbBorderColor, RgbColor rgbBackgroundColor) // MAKE IT A Own Class
{
	//ÌNFO WIDGET HAT AppearanceCharacteristics aber funktioniert trozudem nur wenn man genau deffiniert welches es ist mit "as"
	if (widget.WidgetContentType == WidgetContentType.VariableContent)
	{
		var widgetVarContent = widget as VariableContentWidget;

		//Funktioniert nur bei TextField & Checkboxen nicht bei ComboBox (Es wird nur die erste Combobox eingefärbt und nicht alle) 


		widgetVarContent.AppearanceCharacteristics.Background = rgbBackgroundColor;
		widgetVarContent.AppearanceCharacteristics.BorderColor = rgbBorderColor;

		widgetVarContent.Border = new AnnotationBorder(1, AnnotationBorderStyle.Inset, null);

		widgetVarContent.RecalculateContent();
	}

	if (widget.WidgetContentType == WidgetContentType.TwoStatesContent)
	{
		var widgetTwoStates = widget as TwoStatesButtonWidget;

		//Funktioniert nur bei TextField & Checkboxen nicht bei ComboBox (Es wird nur die erste Combobox eingefärbt und nicht alle) 

		widgetTwoStates.AppearanceCharacteristics.Background = rgbBackgroundColor;
		widgetTwoStates.AppearanceCharacteristics.BorderColor = rgbBorderColor;

		widgetTwoStates.Border = new AnnotationBorder(1, AnnotationBorderStyle.Inset, null);
		widgetTwoStates.RecalculateContent();
	}

	return widget;
}

[Dimitar]

Hi Dominik, 

Without having the document I cannot say be sure why this happens. However, the field may have more than one widget and you can try iterating them as well: 

foreach (var item in document.AcroForm.FormFields)
{ 
    foreach (var widget in item.Widgets)
    {
        //set appearance
    } 
}

Let me know if I can assist you further.