[PDFBOX-3924] How to flatten pdf which contains acroform fields

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.7
• Component/s: AcroForm
• Environment: Windows 10
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subrata Kumar Pradhan
• Created: 07/Sep/17 05:52
• Updated: 07/Sep/17 15:46
• Resolved: 07/Sep/17 15:46

Description

After set the value in the acroForm fields, i want to flatten the pdf. so that there should not be any form fields in my output pdf and when i am writing acroForm.flatten() it's not working.
Here is my java code:

package com.sdrc.image;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField;

public class PDFBoxLanguageTest {
	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		
	    String formTemplate = "C:/Users/XXXX/Downloads/CPIS_test_language.pdf";
            PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument.load(new File(formTemplate));
            PDAcroForm acroForm = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
            acroForm.setNeedAppearances(true); //need this line for Hindi
        
            if (acroForm != null) {
                // Get field names
                List<PDField> fieldList = acroForm.getFields();
                for (PDField pdField : fieldList) {
            	    if (pdField.getFullyQualifiedName().equals("Text1")){
            		// Here i am passing a text in "English"
    			acroForm.getField(pdField.getFullyQualifiedName()).setValue("Welcome");
                        //pdField.setReadOnly(true);// not working
                        //pdField.getCOSObject().setInt("FF", 1);// not working
            	    } else if (pdField.getFullyQualifiedName().equals("Text3")) {
            		// Here i am passing a text in "English-Hindi"
    			acroForm.getField(pdField.getFullyQualifiedName()).setValue("Welcome-नमस्ते");	
                        //pdField.setReadOnly(true);// not working
                        //pdField.getCOSObject().setInt("FF", 1);// not working
            	    } else {
            		// Here i am passing a text in "Hindi"
    			acroForm.getField(pdField.getFullyQualifiedName()).setValue("नमस्ते");
            	        //pdField.setReadOnly(true);// not working
                        //pdField.getCOSObject().setInt("FF", 1);// not working
                    }
	        }
            }
            // acroForm.flatten(); // not working
            pdfDocument.save("C:/Users/XXXX/Downloads/CPIS_test_languageE.pdf");
            // acroForm.flatten();  // not working
            pdfDocument.close();

            System.out.println("Done");
            System.out.println("============================================");
	}
}

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: PDFBOX-3550 OpenType Shaping