[iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name

2002-05-16 Thread Carsten Frewert
Hi! I just discovered a way to crash Acrobat Reader 5 / Win32: If you put two or more form fields (I used textfields) with the same name into a PDF document, - Acrobat Reader 4.0 displays all fields, and input in one field shows up in all other fields, too. This seems reasonable, as all

Re: [iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name

2002-05-16 Thread David Teran
This will not apply to radio button lists. Adobe should change this as soon as possible, because in HTML its normal to have multiple Checkboxes with the same name. regards, david On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 12:38 PM, Carsten Frewert wrote: Hi! I just discovered a way to crash Acrobat

Re: [iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name

2002-05-16 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 3:09 PM +0200 5/16/02, David Teran wrote: Adobe should change this as soon as possible, because in HTML its normal to have multiple Checkboxes with the same name. The only way to change this would be to completely revamp how forms are structured internally in a PDF file. They

Re: [iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name

2002-05-16 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 12:38 PM +0200 5/16/02, Carsten Frewert wrote: I just discovered a way to crash Acrobat Reader 5 / Win32: Acrobat shouldn't crash, but... If you put two or more form fields (I used textfields) with the same name into a PDF document, Yes, you can NOT do that! The way forms

Re: [iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name

2002-05-16 Thread David Teran
The only way to change this would be to completely revamp how forms are structured internally in a PDF file. They could do this, but it would break compatibility with all older viewers :(. Bad news, i wonder why they did it how its implemented now, it definitly is problematic when

Re: [iText-questions] multiple form fields with the same name

2002-05-16 Thread Carsten Frewert
Hi Leonard! On Thu, 16 May 2002, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: At 12:38 PM +0200 5/16/02, Carsten Frewert wrote: I just discovered a way to crash Acrobat Reader 5 / Win32: Acrobat shouldn't crash, but... ACK. Not rendering the document and providing an error message would be ok, but