Combining files only duplicates the first page onto every page.

Field name need to be unique becuase many fields with the same name share some or all of the fields properties if you combind the forms into one big PDF.

You should be looking at [url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/articles/2006/10/extended_forms_features#]Extended Forms Features[/url] by Ted Padova

Sir,

Thank you for responding to my post. So, if I'm understanding you correctly (and I may not be), I need to go into each one of my, actually 600, documents and change all of their many fields so that no two are the same? Did I understand you correctly? If so, there is certainly no way I'm going to all that trouble.

Is there a way to combine them while converting them to a "printed" pdf, one without fields? I tried selecting them to print them to pdf all at once but it wouldn't prompt me to choose a printer but just sent it to my laser printer instead.

Thanks for you help!

You could flatten the PDFs using JavaScript and then combined the flattened files.

Hi,Maboco.

There is a program named PDF Merger may help you combine 100 PDF files into one file as you wish. Here I introduce you this [url=http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-merger.php#201]PDF Merger[/url], which can change the properties of the output PDF document, security settings, bookmarks, and the way a merged PDF file displays.

I think this program can help you resolve the problem you mentioned above and best wishes!

Hi and thank you for the tip. Unfortunately, when I tried using it my first page looked fine and then the rest, instead of being duplicates, had nothing in the fields at all. The form was there on each page but the text that I had typed into the fields was missing. I saw no settings that would allow me to convert the fillable forms to a "printed" pdf without fields. I also tried two of their other programs because I could think of ways they might come in handy but nothing worked at all. Their pdf to word converter simply placed an image of the pdf onto a word document (what's the point of that?), and the pdf to text converter produced a blank page. I guess I'm going to have to print each of the 600 pages to pdf to get rid of the fields and then combine them. What a pain. Thanks for trying, guys! :)

There is no setting.

To "flatten" a PDF created by Acrobat, not LiveCyle Designer, you need to use JavaScript to run a special Acrobat JavaScript method. You can use the following code in Acrobat's JavaScirpt console or as a batch process.

You might want to read Thom Parker's [url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-save-pdf-acrobat-javascript]How to save a PDF with Acrobat JavaScript[/url]. Especially the section about using different formats and using the PS file type. This will convert any PDF form to a PS file with the form field data as part of the PDF body and no form fields. You can then distill and merger the resulting PDF files into one file.

could you let us see a sample of the files by posting two or three to acrobat.com?