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Asked: 2026-05-23T17:47:09+00:00

Could iTextSharp be used to generate PDFs containing the fields in between flowing text

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Could iTextSharp be used to generate PDFs containing the fields in between flowing text e.g.

Thankyou for choosing "ProductNameField". We would ...

I would like to fill the “ProductNameField” from DB using iTextSharp. However the length of the field is not fixed so using form fields leaves the spaces around if the field value is smaller in length or causes overflow if the field value is longer than the space given. I looked in to “floating text field” generated by Adobe LiveCycle but could not find a way to use them from iText.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There’s two basic ways to create PDFs with dynamic text:

    1. PDF form fields
    2. Write the PDF manually

    The former allows people to fill out PDFs with Adobe Acrobat/Reader but has the limitation that you saw of fixed length fields.

    The second option is what iTextSharp is about. You tell iTextSharp to write a paragraph and it does it for you. If you take some static text and combine it with the database or user entered data doesn’t really matter, iTextSharp just wants text.

    So yes, iTextSharp can do this.

    Are you working with an existing PDF or are you creating a PDF from scratch?

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