PdfCopyFields.

Paulo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Patel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:04 PM
Subject: [iText-questions] Challenging Problem?


> Hi, I have tried for several hours (more than a day) to solve this 
> problem. Yes,
> I have read the documentation and also bought the Manning book. Can 
> somebody
> give me pointers on how to solve this?
>
> Here is the problem:
>
> I have 2 Acroforms (call them P1.pdf & P2.pdf).
>
> P1.pdf has just one text field and one submit button. This submit button 
> just
> does HTTP/POST of the text field in P1.pdf to server; i.e. just sends name 
> value
> pair to server. I am able to POST to server from Acrobat reader, no 
> problems so
> far. (Except bugs in Acrobat 8.0 which did not POST the "&" between 
> request
> parameters. This bug is corrected in Acrobat 8.1).
>
> All right,now I want to concatenate P2.pdf, which also has another unique 
> text
> field. I want to concatenate P2.pdf to P1.pdf and POST the text fields of 
> P2
> also to server. That's where I am trying to use iText and miserable 
> failing.
>
> Tried concatentating 2 pdfs using PdfCopy.copyAcroForm, but now the submit
> button on page 1 does nothing; i.e. is does NOT send ANYTHING to server. 
> Tried
> doing PdfCopyFields, same result; i.e. nothing sent to server.
>
> Then I tried to generate a new pdf dynamically, added a new Acroform and 
> then a
> new submit button dynamically using pdfAcroForm.addHtmlPostButton. Again
> concatenated two acroforms. This button does send some data to the server, 
> but
> only for acrofields on the dynamically generated pages.
>
> Tried so many other things, nothing works. So the question is - how to I 
> merge
> two acroforms so that the submit botton posts the merged fields of all 
> merged
> documents to the server? Can it be done?
>
> Thanks!


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