PDF Fillable form make field bold using sn_pdfgeneratorutils.PDFGenerationAPI

Dazler · ‎12-13-2024

Hi,

I have created a PDF Fillable form using Adobe Acrobat. I am using a script include to populate this PDF form using sn_pdfgeneratorutils.PDFGenerationAPI.fillDocumentFields.

I have a field on the form that would need to be bold.

var v = new sn_pdfgeneratorutils.PDFGenerationAPI;

var fieldMap = new Object();
fieldMap["transaction_header"] = 'Test returned on note ending in 1234';
   									
var result = v.fillDocumentFields(fieldMap, "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX106a", "x_new_app_request", 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdccd', "Test");
        
gs.info(JSON.stringify(result));

In the above script, I am trying to get the fieldMap["transaction_header"] value to be bold. I set up the PDF Fillable form font for that pdf field to be arial bold, but I don't think that the string is passing it so that it recognizes the font for that field. If I manually fill out the form, then the bold is working.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Any help would be appreciated.

Ankur Bawiskar · ‎12-15-2024

@Dazler

did you try this

var v = new sn_pdfgeneratorutils.PDFGenerationAPI;

var fieldMap = new Object();
fieldMap["transaction_header"] = '<html><body><b>Test returned on note ending in 1234</b></body></html>';
   									
var result = v.fillDocumentFields(fieldMap, "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX106a", "x_new_app_request", 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdccd', "Test");
        
gs.info(JSON.stringify(result));

If my response helped please mark it correct and close the thread so that it benefits future readers.

Regards,
Ankur
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Dazler · ‎02-10-2025

@Ankur Bawiskar

I apologize for the delay, but no this is not working as servicenow passes the data as a plain text. It doesn't recognize html tags inIt is not recognizing I don't know how, but on some of my other PDFs I am using I made the adobe acrobat field font bold and that worked. For some reasons a couple of my other PDFs is not working with the same function on the Adobe field.