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Merge memorystreams to one iText document

The error PDF header signature not found can be fixed in this case by setting the stream's Position back to 0. Since you're not getting the error Cannot access a closed Stream I'm assuming that you are already correctly setting the PdfWriter's CloseStream to false.
Below is a full working C# 2010 WinForm app targeting iTextSharp 5.1.1.0 that creates three PDFs in MemoryStreams and combines them. Since I don't have a web server handy I'm writing them to disk.
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Create three MemoryStreams
            MemoryStream[] streams = { CreateDoc("Page 1"), CreateDoc("Page 2"), CreateDoc("Page 3") };

            //I don't have a web server handy so I'm going to write my final MemoryStream to a byte array and then to disk
            byte[] bytes;

            //Create our final combined MemoryStream
            using (MemoryStream finalStream = new MemoryStream())
            {
                //Create our copy object
                PdfCopyFields copy = new PdfCopyFields(finalStream);

                //Loop through each MemoryStream
                foreach (MemoryStream ms in streams)
                {
                    //Reset the position back to zero
                    ms.Position = 0;
                    //Add it to the copy object
                    copy.AddDocument(new PdfReader(ms));
                    //Clean up
                    ms.Dispose();
                }
                //Close the copy object
                copy.Close();

                //Get the raw bytes to save to disk
                bytes = finalStream.ToArray();
            }

            //Write out the file to the desktop
            string outputFile = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "Combined.pdf");
            using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(outputFile, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None))
            {
                fs.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);   
            }

            this.Close();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Helper method to create temporary documents
        /// </summary>
        private MemoryStream CreateDoc(string name)
        {
            MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
            using (Document doc = new Document(PageSize.LETTER))
            {
                using (PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms))
                {
                    writer.CloseStream = false;
                    doc.Open();
                    doc.Add(new Paragraph(name));
                    doc.Close();
                }
            }
            return ms;
        }
    }
}









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