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  1. PDFBox
  2. PDFBOX-3111

Replicate Acrobat behavior when merging PDFs with interactive forms

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    • New Feature
    • Status: In Progress
    • Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 1.8.10, 2.0.0
    • None
    • AcroForm
    • None

    Description

      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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          Keith Cozad

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          is duplicated by

          New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. PDFBOX-4454 PDFmergerUtility is changing the names of form fields to dummyField#X when fields have the same name.

          • Critical - Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
          • Closed

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              msahyoun Maruan Sahyoun
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