Hello Constantine, which version of PDFBox are you using?
Flatten of AcroForm works from the Fields entry so if there are no entries and only Widget Annotations they remain as is. We introduced a number of fixups last year (PDFBox 2.0.22) which can be exectuted and build the Fields entry from existing widget annotations. PDDocumentCatalog.getAcroForm(PDDocumentFixup) BR Maruan Am Donnerstag, dem 23.12.2021 um 15:52 +0200 schrieb Constantine Dokolas: > I need to make sure I understand how flattening is supposed to > operate. > > I have a PDF that, as far as I can tell, was an AcroForm that > underwent > some sort of partial flattening. What I see when opening it with the > debugger, is a normal AcroForm object but without any fields. > Instead, the > widget annotations contain the T and V entries themselves. > > AcroForm.flatten() does not embed these widgets. However, PDFium does > embed > these and so does the Aspose PDF library. > > Is this the intended behavior? > > Thanks in advance and keep up the good work! > Constantine > > -- > There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers > knows > about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with > the > work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! > - Richard P. Feynman -- -- Maruan Sahyoun FileAffairs GmbH Josef-Schappe-Straße 21 40882 Ratingen Tel: +49 (2102) 89497 88 Fax: +49 (2102) 89497 91 sahy...@fileaffairs.de www.fileaffairs.de Geschäftsführer: Maruan Sahyoun Handelsregister: AG Düsseldorf, HRB 53837 UST.-ID: DE248275827 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
