Flatten PDF with Attachments

Hi,
I,
1. render a xdp in browser (via servlet)
2. fill out the form, attach some files
3. submit the form as PDF (via servlet)
4. launch a process that flattens the PDF file
the flattened PDF doesn't include attachments no more, it was lost durning the Output/transform Qpac. (if I don't apply the flattening, I am able to see the attachments)
How do I keep attachments in flattened pdf?
Thanks in advance.

You can achieve this with help of assembler service (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/10.0/Services/WS92d06802c76abadb712193f912dbeb3c6db- 8000.html)
This link will help you in creating a DDX to do the same (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/10.0/ddxRef.pdf)
Jump to Section 'Attaching files to a PDF document'. Hope this helps.
These documentation is from ES3 version.
Similar documentation is present for other versions of LiveCycle too.
Regards,
Varun Nohria

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If I create the PDF from Photoshop with a setting that preserves transparency (such as High Quality Print), the file is also small in size. However, if I use this same PDF and flatten it, by printing it once more as a PDF with a setting such as PDFX1a2001 (PDF to PDF), the file becomes enormous. And Acrobat even rasterises embedded fonts which I don't understand!
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the small hairlines around the flattened watermark are what Adobe calls "atomic regions." For transparent type, or any vector shape with a transparency effect (e.g. drop shadow) to be flattened into the artwork behind it, it needs to be rastered into a bitmap to burn it into a single object. The atomic regions are small slices of image where that vector-bitmap rastering happened. In virtually all cases you will not see that in print. (If you zoom in and it gets larger, then you may. It typically stays the same size or disappears.)
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If you're flattening say, an X-4 (unflattened) PDF with live transparency, or burning in an Acrobat watermark, Acrobat is creating more than a couple atomic regions (likely very many). These are several bitmap images, probably along with some other vector type—even if the glyphs stay vector (no transparency affecting them) they are no longer type, but vector objects, if any other part of the copy was rasterized. Acrobat may even be doing you the favor of keeping the text it converted in an invisible layer above the image. (It does this with OCR conversions.)
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