Checkbox in the pdf doc

[Nishma Jain <nj...@transzap.com>]

Does anybody know how to generate check boxes in the pdf document? I have a
boolean data which I want to show as on or off checkbox just as HTML check
box.

Thanks,
Nishma

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Re: Checkbox in the pdf doc

[Clay Leeds <cl...@medata.com>]

On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Nishma Jain wrote:
> Does anybody know how to generate check boxes in the pdf document? I 
> have a
> boolean data which I want to show as on or off checkbox just as HTML 
> check
> box.
>
> Thanks,
> Nishma

This has been asked before. Unfortunately, FOP (and the XSL-FO 1.0 
spec) currently does not accommodate for checkboxes (as in FORM 
element: checkbox). These can be added using a post-processor (such as 
iText, listed toward the bottom of the FOP Other Resources page [1]). 
If you just want a character which looks like a check box, you can 
check into the FOP Special Characters page[2].

Good luck!

Web Maestro Clay

[1]
http://xml.apache.org/fop/resources.html

[2]
http://xml.apache.org/fop/fo.html#xml-special-chars


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RE: Checkbox in the pdf doc

["Andreas L. Delmelle" <a_...@pandora.be>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nishma Jain [mailto:njain@transzap.com]
>
> Does anybody know how to generate check boxes in the pdf
> document? I have a
> boolean data which I want to show as on or off checkbox just as HTML check
> box.
>

Hi,

There are several options:

- use SVG to draw a checked and a non-checked box depending the boolean
value
- find a font that has glyphs for the related Unicode cp's (enough basic
non-checked boxes, but the checked ones don't seem to be readily available
in the basic fonts)

As for myself, I mainly use the latter and my imagination --for example: the
basic ZapfDingbats font supports a lot of empty checkboxes from which you
can choose one, and for the 'checked' checkbox, you have a choice of many
other symbols...

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Andreas


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