Re: [iText-questions] stacks of identical forms

2009-08-25 Thread 1T3XT info
Giles, Bear wrote: > So I don't need to split out the form fields into their own document, I'm not sure what you mean by that. Form fields are annotations. The document in the background is a content stream. If you fill out the form fields and flatten them, you get a series of separate streams (X

Re: [iText-questions] stacks of identical forms

2009-08-25 Thread Giles, Bear
t: Re: [iText-questions] stacks of identical forms Giles, Bear wrote: > I'm thinking of using using PdfSmartCopy to concatenate a number of > generated documents. Each document would have a PdfImportedPage of the > same de-formed document as the underlayer and the populated form field

Re: [iText-questions] stacks of identical forms

2009-08-24 Thread 1T3XT info
Giles, Bear wrote: > I’m thinking of using using PdfSmartCopy to concatenate a number of > generated documents. Each document would have a PdfImportedPage of the > same de-formed document as the underlayer and the populated form fields > as the regular layer. OK. > I guess the question is whe

Re: [iText-questions] stacks of identical forms

2009-08-24 Thread Giles, Bear
f the de-formed document if I can avoid it. Thanks From: Giles, Bear [mailto:bear.gi...@serco-na.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 7:01 PM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [iText-questions] stacks of identical forms I think I've half-remembered something from the book so a questio

[iText-questions] stacks of identical forms

2009-08-24 Thread Giles, Bear
I think I've half-remembered something from the book so a question in case I screwed up something. I have a document that's a stack of identical forms. According to chapter 16 I can just step through each FDF, form.setFields(fdf), stamp it, and concatenate. But I also vaguely remember an examp