I am trying to refactor for 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT now. Can someone tell me how to flatten a PDDocument in PDFBox 2 ? All the examples seem to pertain to v1.x
-----Original Message----- From: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2015 1:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How flatten without changing appearance Hi, > Am 12.09.2015 um 00:08 schrieb Kevin Ternes <[email protected]>: > > Maruan, > That would be great. Please have a look at: > https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=9CCA324BE57ADA7!76929&authkey=!A > KE0x0fh5QDkIIw&ithint=file%2czip This should demonstrate the problem > by processing several files. > I took a quick look. Which version of PDFBox are you using? Would it be possible to go to (the yet to be released) 2.0.0 version? BR Maruan > 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
