Make AcroFields(iTextSharp) are non editable and set bold

Question

I'm using iTextSharp to populate the data to PDF Templates, which is created in OpenOffice. it populating fine, I'm getting proper PDF, But that is coming editable mode. I want non-editable PDF. And also make some rows BOLD( by Program). below is my snippet code.

PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, outputStream);
AcroFields fields = stamper.getAcroFields();
//loop
fields.setField("Desc_", "HILINSKI, MARK");

Please help me. Thanks.

Answer 1

If you don't want to form to be editable, use form flattening as is done in the FillDataSheet example. Add this to your code:

fields.setGenerateAppearances(true);
stamper.setFormFlattening(true);

If you want to change the font of specific fields, use the setFieldProperty() method to change the "textfont" as is done in the TextFieldFonts example:

BaseFont bold =
        BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA_BOLD, BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
form.setFieldProperty("Desc_", "textfont", bold, null);

For more info, read the official documentation.