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V24.1

PdfFormFieldFacade Class

Base class for all form field facades.

Namespace: DevExpress.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Pdf.v24.1.Core.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Pdf.Core

Declaration

public abstract class PdfFormFieldFacade :
    IEnumerable<PdfWidgetFacade>,
    IEnumerable

The following members return PdfFormFieldFacade objects:

Remarks

Call the PdfAcroFormFacade.GetNames() method to get a list of form field names.

The code sample below retrieves all fields and changes their appearance:

using (PdfDocumentProcessor pdfDocumentProcessor = new PdfDocumentProcessor())
{
    pdfDocumentProcessor.LoadDocument("Documents//FormDemo.pdf");

    PdfDocumentFacade documentFacade = pdfDocumentProcessor.DocumentFacade;
    PdfAcroFormFacade acroForm = documentFacade.AcroForm;

    //Change all form fields' color settings:
    var fields = acroForm.GetFields();
    foreach (PdfFormFieldFacade field in fields)
    {
        ChangeFormFieldColor(field);
    }
}
  private static void ChangeFormFieldColor(PdfFormFieldFacade field)
  {
      foreach (PdfWidgetFacade pdfWidget in field)
      {
          //Change color and border settings
          //for all form fields:
          pdfWidget.BorderWidth = 1;
          pdfWidget.BackgroundColor = new PdfRGBColor(0.81, 0.81, 0.81);
          pdfWidget.BorderColor = new PdfRGBColor(0.47, 0.44, 0.67);
          pdfWidget.FontColor = new PdfRGBColor(0.34, 0.25, 0.36);

          //Change border style for text form fields:
          if (field.Type == PdfFormFieldType.Text)
          {
              pdfWidget.BorderStyle = PdfBorderStyle.Underline;
          }
      }
  }
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