> Am 06.11.2015 um 18:40 schrieb Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de>: > > Am 06.11.2015 um 18:37 schrieb Maruan Sahyoun: >> Hi, >> >> when merging forms we are currently treating common fields like different >> ones i.e. we rename the fields of the merged documents so they have unique >> names. Adobe handles that differently where names common between documents >> are treated as the same field (with the value of the first becoming the >> value of all). If the field values shall be retained they do merge into a >> portfolio i.e. the individual PDFs remain independent. >> >> Shouldn't we - from 2.0 onwards - handle merging forms similar to Adobe >> although that's different to how we do it today? > > why not make it an option to do it one way or another?
OK - with the default being the 'Adobe way' and a compatibility mode with the 1.8 behavior? Maruan > > Tilman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
