You have an image in the dataset?
Paulo
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Jamie Badman
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 10:14 AM
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Concatenating Form Based V8 Documents
>
>
> This works perfectly now - for the text fields - but fields
> containing images still don't show. Nearly there though - any
> ideas on what might be causing the images to stay hidden?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jamie.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on
> 28/09/2007 17:56:18:
>
> > I suspect that the XML binding is not creating the
> appearances. You'll
> > have to call AcroFields.regenerateField() for each field to
> recreate the
> > appearances.
> >
> > Paulo
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > > Behalf Of Jamie Badman
> > > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 5:43 PM
> > > To: Post all your questions about iText here
> > > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Concatenating Form Based
> V8 Documents
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------
> > > Jamie Badman
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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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