You are a life saver! Thanks Bruno.

Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote:
> 
> new2pdf wrote:
>> I am combining 2 pdf files into one using 
>> PdfCopyFields.addDocument(pdfReader) and populate this new pdf from the 
>> user input values. My problem is that some of fields on the individual 
>> pdf documents has similar names. So when ever I am setting the values it 
>> is being displayed on both the pages. Is there anyway I can either 
>> rename this fields or give unique page numbers (so that I can refer like 
>> pageNo.fieldname) during the concatination process? Any help will be 
>> truly appreciated.
> 
> Use PdfStamper to rename the fields:
> form = stamper.getAcroFields();
> form.renameField("field", "field1");
> Then concatenate the forms with PdfCopyFields.
> 
> See this example from chapter 2 in the book:
> http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/examples/chapter02/HelloWorldStampCopyStamp.java
> 
> br,
> Bruno
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