Flattened PDF Form and Barcode not displaying

I see there are a lot of discussions that are not answered in this forum, so I am guessing this will go unanswered as well.  But I am looking for a solution for the issue in the subject. I have a simple PDF form built in LiveCycle that I am populating with Coldfusion. Once the form is populated I then flatten the form. The barcode appears up to the flattening point which is when it disappears. The characters that populated the barcode field ARE displaying but the image is not.
Is there a solution?

How are you flattening the forms?  I'm assuming PDFg or Output?
Also, be sure your barcode looks something like this:
<field name="PDF417BarCode1" y="50.8mm" w="66.7mm" h="25.4mm" access="readOnly">
<
ui><
barcode type="pdf417" dataLength="10" moduleWidth="0.0133in" moduleHeight="0.02661in" errorCorrectionLevel="5"/></
ui><
value><
text>1234567890</text></
value></
field>
and not...
<field name="PaperFormsBarcode1" w="82.55mm" h="44.45mm" access="readOnly"><
ui><
barcode type="pdf417" moduleWidth="0.338mm" moduleHeight="0.676mm" errorCorrectionLevel="5"> 
<?templateDesigner decodeMethod 2?>
 <?templateDesigner delimiter '\t'?></barcode></
ui><
calculate><
script contentType="application/x-javascript">
...completely void of script and the value in only the <text> element.

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