How to make editable PDF fields in a Jasper report

[mauro.correa.nunes]

Is there a way to export a Jasper report in PDF where designated fields can be left editable?

[ilona]

Editable PDF fields are a feature of Acrobat. If you want to make fields editable, you'll need to open the PDF in Acrobat and edit them there.

[ionutjenescu]

He wanted to know how to make writeable pdf FORMS using JasperReports, you don't need Acrobat to do that. There is no way to do that with JasperReports, Mauro, unless you buy some 700 dollars software from aspose. The ticket is opened from 2009 (http://community.jaspersoft.com/jasperreports-library/issues/4185)

[hozawa]

Old thread but for reference to those who reached here, I've added a "net.sf.jasperreports.export.text.isInputForm" to switch text field and static text component to pdf form text fields. Just set this property to "true" on static text or text field

https://github.com/ozawa-hi/jasperreports/tree/input_text

[hmorrwmc.ch]

Old thread, but for reference for those who came here, a note: PDF form fields do not work with PDF-A ... if PDF-A is omitted, then the error message to "ZapfDingbats" also disappears

Documentation for the PDF fields can be found here: https://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/sample.reference/forms/index.html#pdfforms

Example

<textField>    <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="180" height="15" uuid="e380d794-f7ea-462f-83f6-8c14fc3e19a7">        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.type" value="Text"/>        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.name" value="Text01"/>        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.border.style" value="Solid"/>        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="px"/>    </reportElement>    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA["Text01"]]></textFieldExpression></textField><textField>    <reportElement x="200" y="1" width="13" height="13" uuid="a4eb453a-9687-4a0e-b465-55f025909556">        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.type" value="Check"/>        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.name" value="Check01"/>        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.border.style" value="Solid"/>        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.check.type" value="Cross"/>    </reportElement>    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA["Check01"]]></textFieldExpression></textField><textField>    <reportElement x="250" y="0" width="180" height="15" uuid="9fe4eb99-48a9-47d5-b1ad-f7b0c83b3bea">        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.type" value="Combo"/>        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.name" value="Combo01"/>        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.border.style" value="Solid"/>        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.choice.separators" value=","/>        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.choices" value="Eins,Zwei,Drei,Vier"/>        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.value" value="Drei"/>        <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.field.combo.edit" value="true"/>        <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="px"/>    </reportElement>    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA["Combo01"]]></textFieldExpression></textField>