Table with editable fields at desired position

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Dear team,



I have a word document which has a place holder @table. I have converted the word to pdf document and now want to create a table.



The table should contain editable rows and it should be placed at @table place holder location in pdf.



Could you please help me to accomplish the task.



Please find the attached files for reference.



Regards,

Satya

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Hi Satya,


Thanks for contacting support.

In order to accomplish your requirement, you need to first search the keyword @table inside PDF file, get its rectangular coordinates and then start creating a table inside existing PDF file on searched coordinates. For more information, please visit


However please share some further details on creating editable rows, so that we can share related information.
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Hi Shahbaz,



Thank you for providing the information.



I am able to get the rectangle coordinates of @table place holder, but am not able to create a table like the one present in the attachment at captured co-ordinates.



Please tell me which class to be used to create a table and how to pass captured rectangular coordinates.



Also, will the data in table be split to multiple pages if row count is more or do we need check for the end of page condition and split the rows while generating the table.





Please advise.



Regards,

Satya

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Hi Satya,

Thanks for contacting support.

In order to render the table on coordinates returned by search results of TextSegment, please try using following code snippet.

[C#]

// Open document
Document pdfDocument = new Document("c:/pdftest/Demo_Document_Final_1 (1).pdf");

// Create TextAbsorber object to find all instances of the input search phrase

Aspose.Pdf.Text.TextFragmentAbsorber textFragmentAbsorber = new Aspose.Pdf.Text.TextFragmentAbsorber("@table");

// Accept the absorber for all the pages

pdfDocument.Pages.Accept(textFragmentAbsorber);

// Get the extracted text fragments

Aspose.Pdf.Text.TextFragmentCollection textFragmentCollection = textFragmentAbsorber.TextFragments;

double SearchString_XIndent = 0;

double SearchString_YIndent = 0;

// Loop through the fragments

foreach (Aspose.Pdf.Text.TextFragment textFragment in textFragmentCollection)
{
    foreach (Aspose.Pdf.Text.TextSegment textSegment in textFragment.Segments)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("XIndent : {0} ", textSegment.Position.XIndent);

        SearchString_XIndent = textSegment.Position.XIndent;

        Console.WriteLine("YIndent : {0} ", textSegment.Position.YIndent);

        SearchString_YIndent = textSegment.Position.YIndent;

    }

}

// Initializes a new instance of the Table

Aspose.Pdf.Table table = new Aspose.Pdf.Table();

// Set the table border color as LightGray

table.Border = new Aspose.Pdf.BorderInfo(Aspose.Pdf.BorderSide.All, .5f, Aspose.Pdf.Color.FromRgb(System.Drawing.Color.LightGray));

// Set the border for table cells

table.DefaultCellBorder = new Aspose.Pdf.BorderInfo(Aspose.Pdf.BorderSide.All, .5f, Aspose.Pdf.Color.FromRgb(System.Drawing.Color.LightGray));

table.Left = (float)SearchString_XIndent;

table.Top = (float)(pdfDocument.Pages[1].PageInfo.Height - SearchString_YIndent);

// Create a loop to add 10 rows

for (int row_count = 1; row_count < 10; row_count++)
{

    // Add row to table

    Aspose.Pdf.Row row = table.Rows.Add();

    // Add table cells

    row.Cells.Add("Column (" + row_count + ", 1)");

    row.Cells.Add("Column (" + row_count + ", 2)");

    row.Cells.Add("Column (" + row_count + ", 3)");

}

// Add table object to first page of input document

pdfDocument.Pages[1].Paragraphs.Add(table);

// Save updated document containing table object

pdfDocument.Save(“c:/ pdftest / Table_in_PDF.pdf”);
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Dear team,

I have tried to generate the table with the code that you have provided and can see that the table is read-only.

I want a table in Pdf document with editable cell content.

Also, when the table is generated dynamically, the table is overlapping with the content present in the existing pdf document.

Is there any way to automatically adjust the content in the pdf table to fit the dynamic table.?

Regards,
Satya

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Hi Satya,

Thanks for sharing the details.

The solution to have editable cell contents is to add TextFields inside respective table cells. However when using following code snippet, we have observed that Form fields are not rendering inside table cells. For the sake of correction, I have logged it as PDFNET-42778 in our issue tracking system. We will further look into the details of this problem and will keep you posted on the status of correction. Please be patient and spare us little time. We are sorry for this inconvenience.

[C#]

// Open document

Document pdfDocument = new Document("c:/pdftest/Demo_Document_Final_1.pdf");

// Create TextAbsorber object to find all instances of the input search phrase

Aspose.Pdf.Text.TextFragmentAbsorber textFragmentAbsorber = new Aspose.Pdf.Text.TextFragmentAbsorber("@table");

// Accept the absorber for all the pages

pdfDocument.Pages.Accept(textFragmentAbsorber);

// Get the extracted text fragments

Aspose.Pdf.Text.TextFragmentCollection textFragmentCollection = textFragmentAbsorber.TextFragments;

double SearchString_XIndent = 0;

double SearchString_YIndent = 0;

// Loop through the fragments

foreach (Aspose.Pdf.Text.TextFragment textFragment in textFragmentCollection)

{

    foreach (Aspose.Pdf.Text.TextSegment textSegment in textFragment.Segments)

    {

        Console.WriteLine("XIndent : {0} ", textSegment.Position.XIndent);

        SearchString_XIndent = textSegment.Position.XIndent;

        Console.WriteLine("YIndent : {0} ", textSegment.Position.YIndent);

        SearchString_YIndent = textSegment.Position.YIndent;

    }

}

// Initializes a new instance of the Table

Aspose.Pdf.Table table = new Aspose.Pdf.Table();

// Set the table border color as LightGray

table.Border = new Aspose.Pdf.BorderInfo(Aspose.Pdf.BorderSide.All, .5f, Aspose.Pdf.Color.FromRgb(System.Drawing.Color.LightGray));

// Set the border for table cells

table.DefaultCellBorder = new Aspose.Pdf.BorderInfo(Aspose.Pdf.BorderSide.All, .5f, Aspose.Pdf.Color.FromRgb(System.Drawing.Color.LightGray));

table.Left = (float)SearchString_XIndent;

table.Top = (float)(pdfDocument.Pages[1].PageInfo.Height - SearchString_YIndent);

// Create a loop to add 10 rows

TextBoxField textBoxField = new TextBoxField(pdfDocument, new Aspose.Pdf.Rectangle(10, 10, 20, 20));

for (int row_count = 1; row_count < 10; row_count++)

{

    // Add row to table

    Aspose.Pdf.Row row = table.Rows.Add();

    // row.Cells[1].Margin.Left,row.Cells[1].Margin.Bottom, row.Cells[1].Width, row.FixedRowHeight-1));

    textBoxField.PartialName = "textbox1";

    textBoxField.Name = "Text1";

    textBoxField.Value = "Text Box";

    // TextBoxField.Border = new Border(

    Aspose.Pdf.Annotations.Border border = new Aspose.Pdf.Annotations.Border(textBoxField);

    border.Width = 5;

    border.Dash = new Aspose.Pdf.Annotations.Dash(1, 1);

    textBoxField.Border = border;

    // Add table cells

    row.Cells.Add().Paragraphs.Add(textBoxField); // "Column (" + row_count + ", 1)");

    row.Cells.Add("Column (" + row_count + ", 2)");

    row.Cells.Add("Column (" + row_count + ", 3)");

}

pdfDocument.Form.Add(textBoxField, 1);

// Add table object to first page of input document

pdfDocument.Pages[1].Paragraphs.Add(table);

// Save updated document containing table object

pdfDocument.Save("c:/pdftest/Table_in_PDF.pdf");
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Satya1992:
Also, when the table is generated dynamically, the table is overlapping with the content present in the existing pdf document.

Is there any way to automatically adjust the content in the pdf table to fit the dynamic table.?

Hi Satya,

Thanks for sharing the details.

I have tested the scenario and have managed to reproduce same problem. For the sake of correction, I have logged it as PDFNET-42779 in our issue tracking system. We will further look into the details of this problem and will keep you posted on the status of correction. Please be patient and spare us little time. We are sorry for this inconvenience.
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Hello, is there any follow up on issue PDFNET-42779? I need to insert a table at a specific point and have it not overlap the following text. Any possible solution would help.

9

@Shoffmann

We are afraid PDFNET-42779 has not been resolved yet. We have recorded your concerns and will update you as soon as any significant update is available.

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@shaurya.chawla

Regretfully, these tickets could not get resolved yet. However, you will surely be notified once resolution is made against them. We apologize for your inconvenience.