Question:
I am trying to add a border around forms in a PDF? How can I accomplish this?
Answer:
The following code will iterator through every field (or rather each Widget) of a field, and set its border appearance.
Note, you probably want to only do this to certain field types. In general you don’t want to call RefreshAppearance on button widgets.
`
using (PDFDoc doc = new PDFDoc(output_path + “forms_test1.pdf”))
{
doc.InitSecurityHandler();
FieldIterator itr;
for(itr=doc.GetFieldIterator(); itr.HasNext(); itr.Next())
{
Field field = itr.Current();
if(your_conditional(field))
{
Widget widget = new Widget(field.GetSDFObj());
widget.SetBorderStyle(new Annot.BorderStyle(Annot.BorderStyle.Style.e_solid, width);
}
}
}
`
Note, a Widget annotation is the visual representation of a Field. A field can have multiple widgets, for example a single field could be repeated on multiple pages. While each Widget can have a separate appearance (e.g. background color can be different), they would all have the same value (e.g. they all show the same phone number).