You can have multiple fields with the same name - however, they will always have the same value. So if you try to merge two forms with different values of ³Name², you will get the same name across the document.
Leonard On 10/1/14, 11:21 AM, "Patrick" <[email protected]> wrote: >I have run into an issue where I merged two PDF documents that both had a >textbox with the same name. > >Adobe products like Acrobat will only display the first textbox and not >the second. Whereas the Chrome/Firefox PDF plugins and some applications >like Foxit will display both textboxes just fine. > >I've also found some Preflight job in Acrobat Pro resolved this issue. I >don't know the PDF specification, but from what I've seen I'm assuming >the PDF spec requires unique names for one type of input element. And if >so, perhaps the PDFBox merger utility should throw an exception in the >case there are duplicate names for one type of element. > >Thanks
