Flattening PDF query

Hi everyone,
Okay so I'm pretty new to InDesign, and sadly couldn't see a resolution to this query in the forum...
I have put together a 'special offer' page in InDesign and then exported it as a PDF. It's six A4 pages so about 2Mb in file size. I am sending it by email.
I have had a few complaints from recipients, however, that when they try to print the PDF it comes up with a 'Flattening' dialogue box and then causes their machine to slow down. I also see the 'Flattening' message when trying to print the PDF on my machine, however, it's quite a decent spec PC so it doesn't cause too many problems.
I assume there's probably quite a simple solution to this... should I be flattening the PDF file through InDesign somehow, so as to avoid this odd beahviour (I don't usually see it on PDFs). And if so, how would I do this?
Many, many thanks in advance for any help!
Best regards,
AspiringDIV

HI there,
Thanks for the help...
Peter - yes, I have quite a bit of transparency and drop shadows etc going on, which would very much spoil the design if these didn't show properly.
As such, is my only option to put up with the flattening behaviour?
(I just thought seemed a bit odd as I hadn't ever noticed this on a PDF I have ever viewed!)
Thanks again!

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http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat
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1- Any solution on how to fix this problem for Acrobat Distiller 9.0.0?
2- Is the thin border appearing around the watermark (with Distiller 8) an artifact or will it be seen on print?

hi, I've just come across this looking for an answer to a related issue. You may have already found your answers, 1 year later, but in case you're still curious:
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.)
There's a host of settings in both versions of Acrobat (more in 9) wherein you can determine how much "extra" information gets carried into your file. Even after flattening within Acrobat, you can still optimize the file size by tossing all of that extra info. (go to Help menu and enter Reduce File Size)
What I suspect is happening is, when outputting a flattened X-1a from Photoshop, it's taking care of rastering the watermark into the image, creating a flattened file. (this is assuming you're not applying the watermark in Acrobat.) This is a single bitmap image.
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.)
Text is text, with font attributes applied, and takes up very little room in a document. Text partially converted to bitmaps and vectors can no longer be read in the file as text (exporting, assistive devices, etc.). If, as I suspect, Acrobat is rastering some of the type, it's preserving the text in the file so it can still be read and exported. (This is just a hypothesis on my part.)
All of the various little images in the atomic regions, partially rastered type, plus any overhead garbage Acrobat saw fit to add to your file can increase the file size drastically.
My advice? Either create a PDF and leave the Acrobat watermark alone (there are reasons), or if you have to flatten it—because you're submitting a PDF/X-1a-compliant file for press that needs to have a transparent watermark—flatten the image in Photoshop, then export your PDF.

Thin lines appear after flattening PDFs

Hello,
Whether we export a layout using one of the PDF/X standards or tell Acrobat Pro to flatten afterwards, the file appears to have thin white lines bordering all the previously semi-transparent areas. Upon zooming in as close as possible, these lines appear to be very negligibly thin and thus not likely to appear in print. However, this of course makes the PDF unusable except for printing (it looks bad at normal zoom with all these random boxes).
Is this normal behavior or should we be choosing another PDF preset or PDF exporting method? Has anyone had any problems with commercial printers showing these artifact lines?
thanks,
JP

The flattener creates what is referred to as "atomic regions" as part of the flattening process...basically it divides the content up, creating or maintaing vector objects and rasters as needed. After flattening, these "artifact" lines are sometimes visible at those atomic region boundaries if, in Preferences under Page Display > Rendering > Smooth Line Art is turned on. This setting has a tendency to exaggerate those lines, which is what you are seeing. When printed they should not be visible.
Can the files be saved as PDF/X4 which supports live transparency? Keeping the transparency live should also mean a smaller file size than a flattened file.

How to save a flattened pdf from a form

I feel like this should be easy, but for some reason I cannot get it to work, nor have any of the other help documents worked. My apoligies in advance if this is a silly question.
I am using Acrobat Pro X (10.1.2) on a Mac running LION.
I have a pdf with fillable text boxes. I need to type in those, then be able to distribute the form so those are no longer fillable, and the form cannot be changed.
This used to be easy. I would simply print to the Adobe PDF printer and it would save a PDF that was flat.
Now this is not an option. The Adobe PDF printer is not available, and I read it was removed after snow leapard. http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50981.html
However, when I go to print this option is not available and I get the notice: "Saving a PDF file when printing is not supported. Instead, choose File > Save."
BUT, when I save the resulting pdf is changable.
I downloaded and installed an action that flattens the PDF. From: http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2011/02/flatten-form-fields-and-comment-using-a-free-acroba t-x-action/
However, it only works sometimes. Other times when it flattens the PDF the text layer goes away.
Any advice? I do this often, and I know others do too. So I feel like there should be a quick and easy workflow to it.
THANKS.

Hi all, after lots of hours I found a solution for myself.....
Please do not forget to set the a context-pdfSource-attribute to binary and bind it to the datasource...
IPrivatePdfCompView.IContextElement contextElement = wdContext.currentContextElement();
         byte[] bytes = contextElement.getPdfSource();
         try
               File file = new File(filename);
               FileOutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(file);
               os.write(bytes);
               os.close();
            catch (IOException e)
               // do something
               e.printStackTrace();
Regrads Thomas

What is the best way to differentiate a flatten pdf file and a mult-layers (live) file

Hi All,
I am using Adobe Acrobat 9.3.
I have over 10,000 pdf files saved in the same directory. Some of them have been flatten while some of them are still live.
All the files need to be flatten and I need to identify all the live files.
Is there any way I can identify them without going through one by one?
Is there any program I can use?
Appreciate for your help.
Thanks,
Chris Wong

You can use JavaScript to tell if there are any layers in a document. You could use it in a batch sequence that checks all of the files in a directory and print the filename to the JavaScript console for each file that has layers.
For more information, see:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.482.html
http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/create_use_layers
You can also use JavaScript to run a Preflight profile that yo've set up to flatten layers. For more information, see:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.510.html

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