Cheers Paulo - here's what I'm trying now:
try{
// Now flatten the PDF
flattenedDest = "flat_" + destination;
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(pdfDir + "/" +
destination);
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new
FileOutputStream(pdfDir + "/" + flattenedDest));
stamper.setFormFlattening(true);
stamper.close();
} catch (Exception e){
System.out.println("Error flattening PDF");
}
But this doesn't seem to do the trick - do I need to do more than call
setFormFlattening(true) ?
Thanks,
Jamie.
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Jamie Badman
Deutsche Bank
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/09/2007
17:05:26:
> Use PdfStamper first to flatten the docs, this will remove the fields,
> leaving the field appearances, and will also remove the XFA. Then, use
> PdfCopy to concatenate the PDFs.
>
> Paulo
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of Jamie Badman
> > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 4:57 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [iText-questions] Concatenating Form Based V8 Documents
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Wonder if someone can help...
> >
> > I'm generating some individual PDF pages using Adobe
> > LiveCycle DS by creating template PDF files using LiveCycle
> > Designer and then binding an XML dataset to the document to
> > create a data-populated PDF.
> >
> > I then want to concatenate the pages together - but when I
> > try to do this using iText, only static text shows on each
> > page, except for the final page.
> >
> > I try merging the pages by hand using Acrobat and I get an
> > error that says "Adobe XML Forms Cannot be Merged". When I
> > use Acrobat to assemble the files into a PDF package, it's all good.
> >
> > So I'm guessing that iText is having the same problem - that
> > it's trying to do a basic merging of the files but in fact I
> > need it to assemble a package...
> >
> > Can iText do this?
> >
> > I'm currently using pdfCopyFields to merge the files.
> >
> > Incidentally, when I look at the version of the resulting PDF
> > file that iText creates, it's PDF Version 1.4 (Acrobat V5).
> > The source files are PDF Version 1.7 (Acrobat V8). I tried
> > using the 'Version' parameter with pdfCopyFields, setting it
> > to '8' but it gets ignored - guess I'm doing that wrong!
> >
> > Is it possible to somehow 'flatten' the individual PDF files
> > so that they are no longer form-based PDF's? I really don't
> > need them to be, once they have the data inside. If I could
> > do this, I think the problem is solved.
> >
> > Anyway, to summarize... is iText able to accomplish the
> > concatenation I'm attempting? If so, how... if not then does
> > anyone have any thoughts on what other product I might try?
> >
> > Thanks for your time and patience ;-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jamie.
>
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