[PDFBOX-5878] pdf form field text gets blurred after flattening

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.28, 3.0.3 PDFBox
• Component/s: AcroForm
• Labels: Appearance
• Environment: Mac Ventura, java 18 PDFBox 3.0.3, Tomcat 9 ; Linux; version: 5.15.0-105-generic, java 17, Tomcat 9.0.93

Language

java

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joseph Jezerinac
• Created: 04/Sep/24 20:55
• Updated: 10/Sep/24 03:43

Description

After flattening a pdf acro form, value of some fields get blurred

 PDDocument pdDocument = Loader.loadPDF(inFile, "");
    pdDocument.setResourceCache(new DefaultResourceCache());
    try {
        boolean save = false;
        if (pdDocument.isEncrypted()) {
            pdDocument.setAllSecurityToBeRemoved(true);
            save = true;
        }
        final PDDocumentCatalog pdDocumentCatalog = pdDocument.getDocumentCatalog();
        if (pdDocumentCatalog != null) {
            final PDAcroForm pdForm = pdDocumentCatalog.getAcroForm();
            if (pdForm != null) {
                pdForm.flatten();
                save = true;
            }
        }
        if (save) {
            pdDocument.save(outFile);
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e) {}