What software is your client using to fill out the form!??!?!

On 9/16/11 5:43 PM, "Andy Wu" <[email protected]> wrote:

>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
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