PdfExportOptions.ExportEditingFieldsToAcroForms Property

Specifies whether to convert editable fields to AcroForms fields on PDF export.

Assembly : DevExpress.Printing.v25.2.Core.dll

NuGet Package : DevExpress.Printing.Core

Declaration

C#
VB.NET

csharp

[DefaultValue(false)]
public bool ExportEditingFieldsToAcroForms { get; set; }

<DefaultValue(False)>
Public Property ExportEditingFieldsToAcroForms As Boolean

Property Value

Type	Default	Description
Boolean	false

true , to export editable fields to PDF AcroForms fields; otherwise, false.

Property Paths

You can access this nested property as listed below:

Library	Object Type	Path to ExportEditingFieldsToAcroForms
Cross-Platform Class Library	ExportOptions

.Pdf .ExportEditingFieldsToAcroForms

| | WinForms Controls | DiagramOptionsExport |

.PdfExportOptions .ExportEditingFieldsToAcroForms

| | WPF Controls | DiagramControl |

.PdfExportOptions .ExportEditingFieldsToAcroForms

Remarks

When you export a document to PDF, enable the ExportEditingFieldsToAcroForms property to generate a fillable PDF form (AcroForms). The fields that you make editable in Print Preview remain fillable in the resulting PDF document.

Limitations

The following limitations apply when you export editable fields to PDF AcroForms:

Text Fields
Character Comb Fields
Check Boxes
Image Fields
Drop-Down Lists

Editable fields are not exported to PDF in the PDF/A-1b compatibility mode.

When you export editable text fields to PDF, fonts that are used to populate these fields are selected according to PDF export settings. However, non-embedded fonts are always used to populate these fields in a PDF viewer.

AcroForms Field Names

Form field names are generated in the following way:

For regular fields, the name pattern is EditingField.ID_#. It consists of three parts: the EditingField.ID property value, an underscore sign, and an automatically incremented zero-based counter. If the EditingField.ID value is not provided, the “ AcroFormField “ literal is used instead.
For group fields, the name pattern is RadioGroupAcroFormField_groupName , where RadioGroupAcroFormField is a hard-coded literal and groupName is the CheckEditingField.GroupID property value. For instance, RadioGroupAcroFormField_myGroup.
Multi-line Character Comb editors are split into distinct editors that follow the same name conversion.