Is it possible to modify PDF Form Field Names?

Question

Here\'s the situation. I have a PDF with automatically generated pdf form field names. The problem is that these names are not very user friendly. They look something like :

Answer 1

The good news: you can change field names in iTextSharp.

You can't actually edit a PDF though. You'd read in an existing PDF, update your field names in memory and then write out your revised PDF. To change a field name call the AcroFields.RenameField method.

Here's a snippet:

PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(PDF_PATH);
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream("Test Out.pdf", FileMode.Create)) {
    PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, fs);
    AcroFields fields = stamper.AcroFields;
    fields.RenameField("oldFieldName", "newFieldName");
    stamper.Close();
}

Now the bad news: there appear to be limitations in the characters you can use in the renamed fields.

I tested the snippet above with your example field name and it didn't work. Remove the periods though and it does work. I'm not sure if there's a workaround but this may be a problem for you,