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Maruan Sahyoun commented on PDFBOX-5197:
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The (default) behavior is intented as the idea was that flatten produces a
result similar to printing the document. One could change the field/annotation
settings prior to flatten in order to change that. We could alos provide a
customization hook into {{isHidden()}} or a other ways to change the default
behavior.
> Form Field Hidden but Printable is not identified as hidden
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> Key: PDFBOX-5197
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5197
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: AcroForm
> Affects Versions: 2.0.18
> Reporter: Vikram Sah
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: Text_Overlapp_Empty.pdf, Text_Overlapp_Flattened.pdf,
> overlapping Text.JPG
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> While working on a PDF Form which has two overlapping form fields
> # TestBox Common Property – Hidden but Printable
> # DropDown with Common Property – Visible but Dosen't print
> But when we flatten the form but calling
> pdfDoc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm().flatten()
> the text on the respective fields also over lap.
> But as per the documentation of the flatten (Invisible and hidden fields will
> be skipped and will not become part of the page content stream).
> Debugged it further found out the isHidden() is returning false for both the
> controls. Attached the screen shot of the over lapping text.
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