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Problem with merging PDF forms

Thanks for your post. You are right.


Luis Catalino

2006/1/27, Paulo Soares <psoares (at) consiste.pt>:
Fields with the same name but different type will vanish. You should
rename the fields.

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> I have a problem with merging PDF forms. I'm using the
> example CopyPdfFields.java, which uses the class
> PdfCopyFields.java. I send the class for you to see. I just
> added the lines:
>
> writer.addDocument(reader);
>                 if (reader.getJavaScript() != null)
>                     writer.addJavaScript(reader.getJavaScript());
>
> I do this to merge to document _javascript_ of the various forms.
>
> When I merge using this, the final document doesn't have all
> the fields from the forms. Some are missing!! Does anyone
> knows why this happens? Some fields in different forms have
> the same name. Can this be the problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luis Catalino
>
>