Whats the alternative to copyAcroForm?

Question

We are currently porting our code base from iText 2.1.7 to iText 5.5.0 (yeah I know.. we had a little longer ;-). Well.. \"now\" that copyAcroForm has gone the way of the D

Answer 1

Please take a look at the MergeForms example:

Document document = new Document();
PdfCopy copy = new PdfCopy(document, new FileOutputStream(filename));
copy.setMergeFields();
document.open();
for (PdfReader reader : readers) {
    copy.addDocument(reader);
}
document.close();
for (PdfReader reader : readers) {
    reader.close();
}

One line in particular is very important:

copy.setMergeFields();

Did you add that line?