Maruan, That would be great. Please have a look at: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=9CCA324BE57ADA7!76929&authkey=!AKE0x0fh5QDkIIw&ithint=file%2czip This should demonstrate the problem by processing several files.
The users complaint is: Boxes are being greyed out and font sizes are being changed by the flatten. My flatten is done by the PDFBoxUtils.flatten() method. Thanks, -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 12:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to merge forms where there is how urgent is it for you? If you could share a sample file and your code for flattening I could take a look. BR Maruan > Am 11.09.2015 um 18:23 schrieb Kevin Ternes <[email protected]>: > > I have not been able to successfully flatten a document without affecting the > formatting of the field. > There are some example codes out there but none of them work correctly for me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 3:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to merge forms where there is > > Hi Kevin > None of these field values will need to be changed afterward the merge. They > are set to read-only. >> >> I tried flattening the source fields but most of these documents rely on >> field annotation for the field value formatting and this is not to be >> changed. > > when a field is flattened correctly the formatting of the annotations > visually representing the field become part of the page content stream. So if > you don't need the fields at all - as there is no further input - you could > flatten the source documents prior to merging them. > > BR > Maruan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
