I am glad you agree. May I ask when a fix can be expected? I fathom this
to be a major issue relevant to others as well.
On 26.06.21 05:15, Tilman Hausherr wrote:
> I can reproduce the problem also with this code, where only a single
> field is flattened:
>
> PDAcroForm acroForm = doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
> List<PDField> list = new ArrayList<>();
> list.add(acroForm.getField("VN_NAME"));
> acroForm.flatten(list, true);
>
> All annotations gone. Yeah, this seems to be a bug.
>
> Tilman
>
> Am 26.06.2021 um 04:44 schrieb Tilman Hausherr:
>> I don't have Acrobat 5 but I did find a problem using the code you
>> suggested:
>>
>> ALL page widget annotations are gone, instead of only those that were
>> flattened. For example VP_TELEFON_FREIW is not readonly and it is
>> still in the field list but missing from the page.
>>
>> The OK file does not bring this problem.
>>
>> The "bad" file brings this log message, I wonder if this is related.
>>
>> "There has been a widget with a missing page reference, will check
>> all page annotations"
>>
>> Tilman
>>
>> Am 25.06.2021 um 08:25 schrieb Ranjeet Kuruvilla:
>>>
>>> Please try this
>>>
>>> PDAcroForm acroForm = doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
>>> List<PDField> list = new ArrayList<>();
>>> for (PDField field : acroForm.getFieldTree())
>>> {
>>>
>>> if(field.isReadOnly())
>>>
>>> {
>>>
>>> list.add(field);
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> acroForm.flatten(list, true);
>>>
>>> and then open the PDF via Acrobat 5. You will see in
>>> SourceFailure.pdf, that the fields, that were Readonly are still there.
>>>
>>
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