Flatten Form field Only or specific field

I’m doing a PDF Form for a client. The client will use Adobe Reader XI to enter the data and save the results.
I was using a button with a javascript to flatten the form field and do a save as. Everything work fine until I discovered that the flatten Javascript ALSO remove all the manually created links in the PDF.
Like I have said, this will be done in Reader, so their is no way this people will use Prefligh, PDF Optimized features to achieve that.
Someone told me it was impossible to (a) flatten specific form field by name, or (b) flatten ONLY the form field and keep links active using Javascript.
Is this true? Does a workaround exist?
Thanks!

It is possible to selectively flatten annotations (including form fields), but it's not as easy as specifying a field name. For more information see the flattenPages documentation: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.466.html
As you can see, you can control which annotations are flattened by controlling whether they are set to print or not. This is the basis of the following: http://www.uvsar.com/projects/acrobat/flattener/

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