# pdfcraft-forms Interactive forms (AcroForm, ISO 32000-2 §12.7). Layer L3; depends on `pdfcraft-cos` and `pdfcraft-fonts`. ## API ```rust let all: Vec = fields(&doc); // terminal fields with widgets, options, flags, /DA let snapshot = fields_with_adopted(&doc); // fields and page-only adoption count in one pass let all = snapshot.items; let adopted = snapshot.adopted_page_fields; set_value(&mut doc, "name", &FieldValue::Text("Ada".into()))?; set_value(&mut doc, "agree", &FieldValue::Check(true))?; set_value(&mut doc, "size", &FieldValue::Radio(Some("L".into())))?; set_value(&mut doc, "toppings", &FieldValue::Choice(vec!["Ham".into()]))?; reset(&mut doc, None)?; // Clear form (back to /DV) // Prepare a form let name = add_field(&mut doc, 0, [72.0, 700.0, 216.0, 722.0], &NewField::Text { multiline: false }, None)?; // "Text1" set_props(&mut doc, &name, &FieldProps { name: Some("email".into()), required: Some(true), ..Default::default() })?; // A partial appearance edit keeps each widget's other styles and custom /DA font. set_props(&mut doc, "email", &FieldProps { appearance: Some(LookPatch { width: Some(3.0), fill: Some(None), ..Default::default() }), ..Default::default() })?; delete_field(&mut doc, "email")?; // A table of text fields (view space, y down), laid out and named before any of it is added: // refused whole for a cell under MIN_FIELD_SIDE or a name with a period, repeated or taken. let names = all.iter().map(|f| f.name.as_str()); let base = table::free_base(names.clone()); // "Table1", or the next one free let mut grid = table::FieldTable::new([40.0, 240.0, 240.0, 360.0], &base); grid.set_columns(2, &base); let cells: Vec = grid.cells_for(names)?; // "Table1_1", "Table1_c2_1", … ``` ## Behaviour - Inheritable attributes (`/FT`, `/Ff`, `/V`, `/DV`, `/DA`, `/Q`, `/MaxLen`) are resolved down the field tree; the form's `/DA` and `/Q` are the last fallback. - Text and choice fields get new appearance streams (`/Tx BMC … EMC`): auto-size (`0 Tf`), comb (cells parted in the border colour), multiline wrapping, password masking, quadding, `/MK` background and border, list-box selection. The `/DA` font is used when `/DR` has it as a simple font or a composite font with a predefined Unicode CMap; otherwise Helvetica (WinAnsi). A value or button caption the font can't hold (Chinese in a Helvetica field, a character beyond U+FFFF in a UCS-2 CMap) is kept, as Acrobat keeps it: `/V` is stored as typed, the appearance draws `?` for those characters, the widget is marked with the first one (`pdfcraft_fonts::UNDRAWN_MARK`, cleared once all of it can be drawn) and the form sets `/NeedAppearances`, so other viewers draw the field from its value with fonts that have them. Not in a document that declares PDF/A, which forbids that flag (`declares_pdfa`). `undrawn_fields` lists the marked fields; the engine reports each edit that draws one, and flattening refuses to make that `?` permanent. - Displaying a form that leaves its appearances to the viewer (`/NeedAppearances`, or a text or choice widget with no `/AP /N`): `with_field_appearances` returns a copy with those widgets drawn from their values, as typing them would draw them; the engine shows and prints that copy and saves the file as it was (#3470). `with_field_appearances_cached` keeps each widget's drawing while the objects it was drawn from are the same (`FieldAppearanceCache`), so typing in one field redraws that field, not the form. Check boxes and radio buttons with no appearance for their state are drawn from `/MK` (border, background, and when on the `/MK /CA` ZapfDingbats symbol in the `/DA` colour), and push buttons with none from `/MK`, `/BS` and their caption. - Check boxes and radio buttons switch `/V` and each widget's `/AS`. Widgets with no appearances get PdfCraft's own (a drawn check mark or dot; no symbol font needed). - Imported `/MaxLen 0` is treated as unlimited (also clearing an inherited limit), while the original entry is preserved. Positive limits still apply. - Values are validated (options, `MaxLen`, single vs multi-select, NoToggleToOff, read-only) and a failed call changes nothing. - `FieldProps::appearance` applies a `LookPatch` independently to each widget. `None` keeps a property; `Some(None)` removes a border/fill colour. Unchanged `/DA`, custom font resources, widget-specific `/DA` overrides, indirect `/MK` and `/BS` contents, dash arrays and unknown dictionary keys are preserved. It is mutually exclusive with the complete `look` replacement. Use the engine's `Edit::Batch` to change several fields atomically in one undo step. - `/RV` (rich text) is removed when a value is set so it can't contradict `/V`. - New fields follow Acrobat: names Text1, Check Box1, Group1 (radio groups), Dropdown1, List Box1, Button1, Date1, Signature1; `/Helv` is added to `/DR`; appearances are drawn at once. Radio buttons joining a group become kid widgets with their own export state. Renaming changes only the last part of a dotted name. - Renaming a field renames it in every Calculate script that reads it (`af::rename_in_calculation`): `AFSimple_Calculate` field lists, simplified field notation (the `BVCALC` comment and its translation), and `getField` calls whose argument is the name as one string literal. The rest of each script is kept as written. Names built at run time, a script stream that isn't UTF-8, other events' scripts and a name another field still has are left alone. `calculations_changed` compares two readings of a form to say which formulas an edit rewrote. - The calculation order (`/CO`, §12.7.3): `calculation_order` lists the calculated fields in the order `recalculate` runs them, with the fields each formula reads (`Calculate::reads`, `af::calculation_reads`; names built at run time aren't known) and what is wrong with the order: a field reading one that calculates later, a loop, a field `/CO` leaves out, and `/CO` entries that calculate nothing. `CalculationOrder::fixed` is Fix order: a stable topological sort that keeps the current order wherever it can and leaves loops as they are. `set_calculation_order` writes `/CO` afresh. A field that gets a calculation joins the end of the order; one whose calculation changes keeps its place. - `Widget::caption` reads a push button's normal label (`/MK /CA`, including indirect values). `FieldProps { caption: Some((widget_index, text)), ..Default::default() }` changes or clears that label, independently of the field name. The index is 0-based. A label-only edit redraws just that widget, copying shared/indirect `/MK` and appearance dictionaries before editing. Other widgets, actions, icons, rotation and unknown entries are preserved. Existing icon-only layouts keep hiding the caption; caption rendering retains the existing Helvetica/WinAnsi limits and reports unavailable characters as above. ## Not yet Rich-text values and exact appearance metrics/layout remain incomplete. JavaScript execution and FDF/XFDF exchange are integrated through the engine; this crate provides field actions and native AF rules. `/MK /R` rotation (0, 90, 180, 270) is drawn into the appearance.