PS. One thing I've noted is that when I fill it in and save it, I can still get at the fields in the AcroForm but with the client submitted PDFs, there are no fields present even though in Adobe Reader, it looks like there are. Perhaps that's a clue to what's happening.
On 16/09/2011 15:58, Andy Wu wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an issue with attempting to flatten forms where the data is > disappearing. If I open the original form in Adobe Reader, fill it in > and save it, I have no problem flattening it. > > However when our end clients are filling them in and return them to us, > flattening them with iText results in the data disappearing. I can > flatten the PDF with Nitro PDF Reader and it has no issues with it so > I'm wondering what I could be missing in my iText usage as all the > examples I've seen just point to setFormFlattening( true ). > > Can any experts point me in the right direction? > > Thanks > Andy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. > Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a > reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: > http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
