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[jira] [Comment Edited] (PDFBOX-3111) Replicate Acrobat behavior
when merging PDFs with interactive forms
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3111?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16760025#comment-16760025 ]
Maruan Sahyoun edited comment on PDFBOX-3111 at 2/4/19 5:03 PM:
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what about working through the test files I've added a year ago (starting with a simple text field as you suggested) and marking the function as "experimental" to set the expectations. So we can work on improving that as we try to match what Acrobat does. As can be seen from the tests it's also merging fields of different kinds ...
The first step should be to backport to 2.x -> WDYT?
I'm currently very limited in time but could do that next weekend. If that goes well I can start the initial development for merging the Acrobat way.
was (Author: msahyoun):
what about working through the test files I've added a year ago (starting with a simple text field as you suggested) and marking the function as "experimental" to set the expectations. So we can work on improving that as we try to match what Acrobat does. As can be seen from the tests it's also merging fields of different kinds ...
The first step should be top backport to 2.x -> WDYT?
I'm currently very limited in time but could do that next weekend. If that goes well I can start the initial development for merging the Acrobat way.
> Replicate Acrobat behavior when merging PDFs with interactive forms
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> Key: PDFBOX-3111
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3111
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: AcroForm
> Affects Versions: 1.8.10, 2.0.0
> Reporter: Maruan Sahyoun
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: proof.pdf
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> When PDFs containing interactive forms are merged using Acrobat, fields with the same name are merged into one. That's different to the current behavior of PDFBox which renames to be merged fields so they have a unique name (see PDFBOX-3094).
> In addition Acrobat supports merging documents with interactive forms into collections when keeping the existing (duplicate) fields is required.
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