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From: Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
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Subject: Re: Merging XFA PDF documents
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:17:40 +0100
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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. =85..

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 =
<sirisha.dinavahi@codeobjects.com>:

> Hi,
>=20
> Can we use PDF Box to merge XFA PDF documents? We could not merge such =
documents using iText without first flattening them.
>=20
> Thanks,
> Sirisha.


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