amount format lost when writing to pdf

[ayeen]

hi,

we have this field in our source.pdf called total_amount... in acrobat we have manually set the property of total_amount like this:

Category: Number (1,234.00)
Number Options: Decimal places : 2
                       Currency symbol : none
                       Separator style: 1,234.56

But when we start running our itext program to write the data from the database to the PDF instead of seeing 4,444.00 we still see 4444.00

is itext somehow overriding the formats manually rendered on the the source.pdf?

thanks in advance!