How to (horizontally) align text of PDTextField in PDFBox?

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I have a program that create TextFields inside a PDF-file so it can be used as a form. I would like to have the text I write in the TextFields I created to be centered though. How is that possible? My code currently looks like this:

PDTextField textBox = new PDTextField(acroForm);
textBox.setPartialName("Field " + j + " " + i);
defaultAppearanceString = "/Helv 8 Tf 0 g"; //Textsize: 8
textBox.setDefaultAppearance(defaultAppearanceString);
acroForm.getFields().add(textBox);

PDAnnotationWidget widget = textBox.getWidgets().get(0);
PDRectangle rect = new PDRectangle(inputField.getX(), inputField.getY(), inputField.getWidth(), inputField.getHeight());
widget.setRectangle(rect);
widget.setPage(page);
widget.setPrinted(true);
page.getAnnotations().add(widget);

and I thought of an easy function to align text like this:

textBox.setAlignment(Alignment.CENTER);

but I didn't find it.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 10 '19 at 09:53

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Use the Q flag:

textBox.setQ(PDTextField.QUADDING_CENTERED);

Other possible values are QUADDING_RIGHT and QUADDING_LEFT (which is the default).

edited Apr 10 '19 at 09:53

Danyal Sandeelo

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answered Dec 12 '17 at 11:29

Tilman Hausherr

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Thanks, I had to use `textBox.setQ(1);` though, because `PDVariableText.QUADDING_CENTERED` is not visible. – Impulse The Fox Dec 12 '17 at 12:11
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Could it be you're not using the latest version? This was fixed in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3925 . – Tilman Hausherr Dec 12 '17 at 12:34
Ah yes, I was still using 2.0.7 instead of 2.0.8 – Impulse The Fox Dec 12 '17 at 13:18

How to (horizontally) align text of PDTextField in PDFBox?

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