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Topic: Re: Changing text field of an existing PDF (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Developers, Msg: 31688
From: LeonardR
Date: 12/18/2001 03:39 AM

At 01:55 AM 12/18/2001 +1100, p-pdf-developer Listmanager wrote:
>Please elaborate on the term "flattening". Acrobat 5.0 has a flattening
>method, but it "flattens" everything (on a page); all annotations are
>converted to bit streams and they are no longer interactive.

Correct. It's the same thing - where annotations and/or form
fields are converted from PDF "structure" to PDF "content".

>Can the applications you cite below locally flatten?

Yes! They are designed for server-side flattening, where Acrobat
can't be run.


>That is, flatten one field leaving another untouched?

Yes, both of those products support selective flattening - where
you can choose to only have some flattened (for example, one based on a
barcode font) while leaving the others as standard fields.

Also, you have selected choices of font, size, color, etc. on a
field by field basis when the flattening takes place (or you can have it
use the field attributes themselves).


Leonard