Hi Kevin,
I've created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2970
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2970> for that.
In addition you can start playing with that code based on the current PDFBox
2.0.0 snapshot.
PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(new File(...));
PDAcroForm acroForm = doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
// Iterate over all form fields and their widgets and create a
// FormXObject at the page content level from that
for (PDField field : acroForm.getFieldTree())
{
for (PDAnnotationWidget widget :
((PDTerminalField)field).getWidgets())
{
PDPage page = widget.getPage();
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new
PDPageContentStream(doc, page, true, true);
PDFormXObject fieldObject = new
PDFormXObject(widget.getAppearance().getNormalAppearance().getAppearanceStream().getCOSStream());
Matrix translationMatrix =
Matrix.getTranslateInstance(widget.getRectangle().getLowerLeftX(),
widget.getRectangle().getLowerLeftY());
contentStream.saveGraphicsState();
contentStream.transform(translationMatrix);
contentStream.drawForm(fieldObject);
contentStream.restoreGraphicsState();
contentStream.close();
}
}
// preserve all non widget annotations
for (PDPage page : doc.getPages())
{
List<PDAnnotation> annotations = new ArrayList<PDAnnotation>();
for (PDAnnotation annotation: page.getAnnotations())
{
if (!(annotation instanceof PDAnnotationWidget))
{
annotations.add(annotation);
}
}
page.setAnnotations(annotations);
}
// remove the fields
acroForm.setFields(Collections.<PDField>emptyList());
doc.save(...);
doc.close();
BR
Maruan
> Am 14.09.2015 um 17:57 schrieb Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>:
>
>
>
>> Am 14.09.2015 um 16:53 schrieb Kevin Ternes <[email protected]>:
>>
>> 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
>
> there are non but I've started to get that into the project
>
>>
>> -----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.
>>
>>
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