merging docs with form fields and tags

[David Hill <DH...@StudentLoan.org>]

We are trying to merge multiple PDFs together and we are having issues with form fields and tags vanishing. Tags and editable form fields will not exist in the output.

This seems related to issues 1031 and 930.

The problem seems to happen if the first document does not have fields or tags. In the case where the first document does not have form fields the form fields for the second document will be missing but all subsequent form fields seem to exist properly in the resulting document. In the case where the first document does not have tags, all tags on all pages are missing in the resulting document.

This is a high priority for our current 508 compliance project, we may attempt to correct the issue ourselves. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem might be and where we might start looking for a solution?

Thanks!

Dave Hill
Lead Developer
Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corp

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Re: merging docs with form fields and tags

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> -----Original Message----- From: David Hill
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> Subject: merging docs with form fields and tags
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> We are trying to merge multiple PDFs together and we are having issues with form fields and tags vanishing. Tags and editable form fields will not exist in the output.
> 
> This seems related to issues 1031 and 930.
> 
> The problem seems to happen if the first document does not have fields or tags. In the case where the first document does not have form fields the form fields for the second document will be missing but all subsequent form fields seem to exist properly in the resulting document. In the case where the first document does not have tags, all tags on all pages are missing in the resulting document.
> 
> This is a high priority for our current 508 compliance project, we may attempt to correct the issue ourselves. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem might be and where we might start looking for a solution?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Dave Hill
> Lead Developer
> Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corp
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Re: merging docs with form fields and tags

[Ray Morris <ra...@bigpond.com>]

I really want to be dropped from the pdfbox email list.

Ray Morris
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-----Original Message----- 
From: David Hill
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:32 AM
To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
Subject: merging docs with form fields and tags

We are trying to merge multiple PDFs together and we are having issues with 
form fields and tags vanishing. Tags and editable form fields will not exist 
in the output.

This seems related to issues 1031 and 930.

The problem seems to happen if the first document does not have fields or 
tags. In the case where the first document does not have form fields the 
form fields for the second document will be missing but all subsequent form 
fields seem to exist properly in the resulting document. In the case where 
the first document does not have tags, all tags on all pages are missing in 
the resulting document.

This is a high priority for our current 508 compliance project, we may 
attempt to correct the issue ourselves. Does anyone have any ideas what the 
problem might be and where we might start looking for a solution?

Thanks!

Dave Hill
Lead Developer
Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corp

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RE: merging docs with form fields and tags

[David Hill <DH...@StudentLoan.org>]

As I mentioned, we are losing tags, bookmarks, and input fields when we merge documents and the first document does not contain tags, bookmarks, or input fields.

We tried a work around. We created a "cover page" that contained input fields, tags, and bookmarks and caused it to be the first page in the resulting merged document.

The output was perfect, all tags, input fields, and bookmarks were preserved.

Then we used PageExtractor to extract the "cover page" and all tags and bookmarks were stripped from the output. Input fields were preserved. It did not even matter if I "extracted" all pages from 1 to page count so that the output document had all the same pages as the intermediate document.

At first blush it looks like this workaround isn't going to work because there is no way to eliminate the unwanted cover page.

Dave Hill
Lead Developer
Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corp

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From: David Hill
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 1:32 PM
To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
Subject: merging docs with form fields and tags

We are trying to merge multiple PDFs together and we are having issues with form fields and tags vanishing. Tags and editable form fields will not exist in the output.

This seems related to issues 1031 and 930.

The problem seems to happen if the first document does not have fields or tags. In the case where the first document does not have form fields the form fields for the second document will be missing but all subsequent form fields seem to exist properly in the resulting document. In the case where the first document does not have tags, all tags on all pages are missing in the resulting document.

This is a high priority for our current 508 compliance project, we may attempt to correct the issue ourselves. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem might be and where we might start looking for a solution?

Thanks!

Dave Hill
Lead Developer
Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corp

________________________________

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