Other than recreating the fields there's no easy way to do it.
Paulo
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> Behalf Of Tim Yang
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:36 AM
> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [iText-questions] question about the big downside
> for PdfWriter.
>
> I ever sent a question to you , but get no response. Maybe I
> did not say the question clearly. So I re-do it:
>
> In iText Tutorial I read:
>
> PdfWriter:
> <http://itext.ugent.be/library/api/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfWri
> ter.html> generates a document from scratch, but also
> supports importing pages from other PDF documents. There's
> one big downside: all interactive features of the
> PdfImportedPage
> <http://itext.ugent.be/library/api/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfImp
> ortedPage.html> are lost in the process (annotations,
> bookmarks, fields,...) if you use PdfWriter.
>
> My question is why there is such a big downside? Is that
> impossible or what? Or could you be so kind to point me where
> those codes about this downside? So is there any way
> avaliable to do such a task? (keep interactive features still
> interactive after being added by pdfImportedPage)
>
> Why I am asking such a question? Because I am facing such a
> tough problem:
> I am generating a pdf and I want to use an existing PDF as a
> template to be imported in it, anywhere of a page,not just a new page.
> But if the existing (external) PDF has some Acro form fields,
> they are to be flattened.
> My question is can those fillable form fileds be still
> fillable after beinng imported as a template.
>
> Could you give me some suggestion?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
> Tim
>
>
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