The second part of the example is using Aspose.Pdf.Facades to add a new form field in the PDF, at the same location where the text was found. It is also used to set the form field attributes like BackgroundColor and BorderColor.
I have a pdf document with many form fields on it. I need to see the names of the form fields. Can I do this with Adobe Reader? Perhaps a third party tool..?
Sathyajith Bhat♦5 Answers
It's likely you'll find a user-friendly application to do this for you, but this is how I achieve it with a little VBScript...
Download and Install ABCpdf fromwebSupergoo, available here...
Copy the following script into atext file and save it with a '.vbs'file extension.
Place a copy of your PDF file intothe same folder as the script, namingit 'myForm.pdf'.
Double-click the script file to run.
After the script finishes you should find another PDF document named 'output.pdf' appears in the same folder, with all the field names overlayed on top of the fields.
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I appreciate this question is a bit old but in case anyone else comes across it the PDF Toolkit will allow you to do this very simply with a command that looks like this (where the PDF you want the form fields from is called docsOfInterest.pdf:
gronostajAs far as I know you can't do it with Acrobat Reader. You can use their PDF writer program (Currently Acrobat XI) to do it, but it's fairly pricey.
I had to do the same thing for just a few documents. I just downloaded the trial version of deskPDF Studio X. From the menu, going to Forms > Modify Form Layout lets you see the name of the fields.
Be aware working with their free trial version will stamp documents with a watermark if you save the document.
There is a technical article on Aspose.com which explains how to identify form field names for PDFs. According to this article, you can achieve this by using the Java code on the page.
Mehper C. PalavuzlarMehper C. PalavuzlarAspose Pdf Java
Apparently there's an online live demo of a package called AspPDF, that lets you do just that. You can find a direct link here.
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I have a pdf document with many form fields on it. I need to see the names of the form fields. Can I do this with Adobe Reader? Perhaps a third party tool..?
Sathyajith Bhat♦
5 Answers
It's likely you'll find a user-friendly application to do this for you, but this is how I achieve it with a little VBScript...
Download and Install ABCpdf fromwebSupergoo, available here...
Copy the following script into atext file and save it with a '.vbs'file extension.
Place a copy of your PDF file intothe same folder as the script, namingit 'myForm.pdf'.
Double-click the script file to run.
After the script finishes you should find another PDF document named 'output.pdf' appears in the same folder, with all the field names overlayed on top of the fields.
I appreciate this question is a bit old but in case anyone else comes across it the PDF Toolkit will allow you to do this very simply with a command that looks like this (where the PDF you want the form fields from is called docsOfInterest.pdf:
gronostajAs far as I know you can't do it with Acrobat Reader. You can use their PDF writer program (Currently Acrobat XI) to do it, but it's fairly pricey.
I had to do the same thing for just a few documents. I just downloaded the trial version of deskPDF Studio X. From the menu, going to Forms > Modify Form Layout lets you see the name of the fields.
Be aware working with their free trial version will stamp documents with a watermark if you save the document.
There is a technical article on Aspose.com which explains how to identify form field names for PDFs. According to this article, you can achieve this by using the Java code on the page.
Mehper C. PalavuzlarAspose Pdf Viewer
Mehper C. PalavuzlarApparently there's an online live demo of a package called AspPDF, that lets you do just that. You can find a direct link here.