You are flattening the file with stamp.setFormFlattening(true). This
eliminates all the fields and only keeps the appearances. Eliminate that
line to keep the fields.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lei, The-Viet [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 13:43
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [iText-questions] why are the text fields not editable any
> more after using PdfStam per to merge the fields ?
>
> Hello power users of iText,
>
>
> I use the following method to merge text fields. The side effect is that
> the
> text fields are not editable any more in the acrobat reader 5.1.
> Does any body know why and how to avoid that?
>
> Thank you for your reading and help,
>
> Best regards The-Viet Lai
>
>
>
> public static void mergeFields(File inPdf, File outPdf, HashMap fields)
> throws Exception
> {
> OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outPdf);
> PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(inPdf.getAbsolutePath());
> PdfStamper stamp = new PdfStamper(reader, os);
> AcroFields form = stamp.getAcroFields();
> HashMap pdfFields = form.getFields();
> Iterator it = pdfFields.keySet().iterator();
> while (it.hasNext())
> {
> String field = (String)it.next();
> String value = (String)fields.get(field);
> form.setField(field, value);
> }
> stamp.setFormFlattening(true);
> stamp.close();
> os.close();
> }
>
>
>
>
>
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