Yes, LiveCycle Forms Server can indeed do what is required AND it has a Java API should you need to do additional integration/automation.
Leonard -----Original Message----- From: Paulo Soares [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:22 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Concatenating multiple PdfForms!! URGENT!! I'm sure that Livecycle server can do it. Paulo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maky2507" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Concatenating multiple PdfForms!! URGENT!! Thanks Paul, Do you have any idea of which Adobe tool I need to use? Also my application is in Java, does the Adobe API has Java support? I searched in net but could not find any Adobe API to do this programmatically. Thanks, Maky Maky2507 wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have multiple PDF Forms created using Adobe Live Cycle manager. The > requirement is to read the forms, stamp the form with the user provided > values. And then concatenate the forms to build a single pdf. > In some of my forms I have a text field, which can flow to next page. For > this I have set flowed as the subform property and the text field's Y-axis > expand to fit as true. > I tried two approaches: > > Approach 1: Using PdfCopyFields > 1. I create a PdfReader and PdfStamper to read and stamp the forms. > 2. Create an instance of PdfCopyFields(FileoutputStrem fos) > 3. Keep calling PdfCopyFields.addDocument(PdfReader) for each form's > PdfReader > 4. Close the PdfCopyFields > When I am doing this, the TextField within flowed form and whose Y-axis > expand to fit is set does not exapnd to next page. Instead the text field > is > shown within the first page with a + mark. > > Approach 2: Programmatically reading and adding fields > 1. Create a PDFWriter on the output file. > 2. Read and stamp the forms and return all the fields (using > AcroForm.getFields()) > 3. Read each field's position and other details like field name and value, > create the same element in the output PdfWriter > In this approach I need to manipulate and calculate the coordinaties of > each of the field, as the positions of each field in the output pdf will > be relative to its previously added field (which could be from a different > form). > Here also I see the same problem, where in the text field does not flow to > the next page, instead it shows some lines and then shows a + mark. > > Please let me know if you have any idea on this or have implemented this > kind of requirement in your projects. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Concatenating-multiple-PdfForms%21%21-URGENT%21%21-tp24487245p24503171.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
