Does the fact that when I've filled in the form myself and saved it with Adobe Reader, it flattens without issue rule out that possibility?
Andy On 16/09/2011 16:40, Paulo Soares wrote: > It may be a dynamic LiveCycle form and iText can't flatten those. You'll have > to show us the PDF. > > Paulo > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Wu [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 4:34 PM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Form Flattening > > Hi Paulo, > > Thanks for the prompt reply, > > The PDF returned from the client as > PdfStamper.getAcroFields().getFields() returns 0 fields so I can't > readily loop over the fields to do that. I can certainly call it with > the field names having prior knowledge of what should be there but I > guess that's not what you meant and it doesn't appear to work. > > Thanks > Andy > > On 16/09/2011 16:25, Paulo Soares wrote: >> Look like they are not generating the appearances. Call >> AcroFields.regenerateField() for each field to regenerate the appearances >> and make flattening working. >> >> Paulo >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Andy Wu [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 3:58 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [iText-questions] Form Flattening >> >> 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 > Aviso Legal: > Esta mensagem é destinada exclusivamente ao destinatário. Pode conter > informação confidencial ou legalmente protegida. A incorrecta transmissão > desta mensagem não significa a perca de confidencialidade. Se esta mensagem > for recebida por engano, por favor envie-a de volta para o remetente e > apague-a do seu sistema de imediato. É proibido a qualquer pessoa que não o > destinatário de usar, revelar ou distribuir qualquer parte desta mensagem. > > Disclaimer: > This message is destined exclusively to the intended receiver. It may contain > confidential or legally protected information. The incorrect transmission of > this message does not mean the loss of its confidentiality. If this message > is received by mistake, please send it back to the sender and delete it from > your system immediately. It is forbidden to any person who is not the > intended receiver to use, distribute or copy any part of this message. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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
