Hi Sirisha, PDFBox can help you to get the individual XFA content out and in (in can be done today only by using low level routines we are working on a slightly higher level method). The combination of the XFA has to be done outside (it's pure XML handling outside of the scope of PDFBox). To understand how form stiching works I think it's best to read the Adobe LiveCycle Assembler documentation on the topic.
With kind regards Maruan Sahyoun FileAffairs GmbH Josef-Schappe-Straße 21 40882 Ratingen Tel: +49 (2102) 89497 88 Fax: +49 (2102) 89497 91 [email protected] www.fileaffairs.de Geschäftsführer: Maruan Sahyoun Handelsregister: AG Düsseldorf, HRB 53837 UST.-ID: DE248275827 Am 20.03.2013 um 02:19 schrieb Sirisha Dinavahi <[email protected]>: > Thanks Maruan for your response. > In our case we would like to combine the documents to display the combined > form in adobe reader. > Could you shed some light on forms stitching? Is this something we can > achieve using some APIs? > > Regards, > Sirisha. > ________________________________________ > From: Maruan Sahyoun [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Merging XFA PDF documents > > Hi Sirisha, > > could you describe what you would like to achieve a little? If the use case > is to merge XFA documents to have an end document for archiving purposes > flattening is the right way to go. If you would like to combine the XFA > documents to have a new form which you could display in Adobe Reader you > could extract the XFA content, combine it and put it back in - that's called > forms stiching. ….. > > Currently PDFBox is not able to flatten a dynamic XFA document. You could use > it to flatten static XFA documents but that has to be done using low level > API functions. There is no high level API such as doc.flattenXFA() or so. > There is some basic support for extracting XFA content. We are working on > being able to put XFA content in. > > If you need some further hints - also possible alternatives - let us know. > > Kind regards > > Maruan Sahyoun > > Am 18.03.2013 um 17:32 schrieb Sirisha Dinavahi > <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> Can we use PDF Box to merge XFA PDF documents? We could not merge such >> documents using iText without first flattening them. >> >> Thanks, >> Sirisha. > >
