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Combining XML and PDF Files

  • April 12, 2012
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Hi, I have a form created in Adobe LiveCycle, and I need to be able to take this form and merge it with some PDF forms.  When I go try to "Combine Files into PDF" It says the XML form cannot be combine.  Is there a way around this?  Using the "Create a Portfolio" is not an option.

I have Adobe Pro X

Thanks for any assistance you can give on this matter.

Connie Bretes

    Best answer by Kosta_Prokopiu1

    Hi,
    to explain why you cannot combine the XFA PDF with others:
    Assembling PDFs only works with the same "type" of PDF.
    The most common form of PDFs is what I call the Print-PDF. That is what the majority of PDFs out there are.
    Then there are special variants such as XFA PDFs. These need a plug-in in Adobe Reader or Acrobat to render them in their final form while being opened.
    Because these two are so different, it is not possible to combine them in Acrobat.

    You can "flatten" your XFA PDF (it will not be a form with editable fields afterwards) and create a Print-PDF. Then you can combine them.
    To flatten them you could for example use the "Microsoft Print as PDF" (which probably works better than converting to Word).

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    camerons8212090
    December 26, 2019

    I was able to figure out how to combine an XML "pdf wrapped" file and a regular pdf without losing the editable boxes. Open both files you want to combine. Highlight all the pages of the XML document, right click, and select "Extract Pages". Extract them all into a new document. Then just select the pages and drag them to the other pdf doc. Any editable form fields will still be there.

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    Wingman832
    April 26, 2023

    The XML pdf is blank when I add them to the regular PDF.

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      jngincorporated
      August 18, 2020

      the easiest way that I found to do it was to export the xml wrapped pdf to a word docx. then save that as a pdf. you can now open it and insert/merge other pdfs into it...

      Kosta_Prokopiu1
      Adobe Employee
      Kosta_Prokopiu1Adobe EmployeeAccepted solution
      Adobe Employee
      August 25, 2020

      Hi,
      to explain why you cannot combine the XFA PDF with others:
      Assembling PDFs only works with the same "type" of PDF.
      The most common form of PDFs is what I call the Print-PDF. That is what the majority of PDFs out there are.
      Then there are special variants such as XFA PDFs. These need a plug-in in Adobe Reader or Acrobat to render them in their final form while being opened.
      Because these two are so different, it is not possible to combine them in Acrobat.

      You can "flatten" your XFA PDF (it will not be a form with editable fields afterwards) and create a Print-PDF. Then you can combine them.
      To flatten them you could for example use the "Microsoft Print as PDF" (which probably works better than converting to Word).

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