Ho do i flatten a pdf document

how do i flatten a pdf doc to make it non editable

All PDFs created through the Print dialog or in Preview are non-editable. How are you creating your PDFs? (in what application?)
Just to check, are you really still running OS X 10.3? (In which case, you have a non-Intel iMac).
Matt

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What Adobe product do I need in order to be able to flatten a pdf document so that my comment/stamps appear when I send to clients.

What Adobe product do I need in order to be able to flatten a pdf document so that my comment/stamps appear when I send to clients.

If your clients are opening the file with Adobe Reader, they should show even if not flattened.
If they are not and you absolutely need to flatten them, maybe the pre-press tools in Adobe Acrobat would work for you.

How to set a button to flatten & email PDF document

Hi everyone, I am new enough to form creation and have a request for any help?
I have a form I would like to give to someone.
They should be able to fill it as they need to in reader etc. (with various basic fields and an incrementing number for each form used which I have already put in) then they need to press a button on the bottom that will flatten (or make the form read only) and attach it to an email. I would like this to be able to save as to say iBooks on an iPad and to a folder on anroid tablets. Is this possible?
Also, if possible, is there a way to have it that the details entered could be transferred to a secondary pdf? As a kind of summary page?
I have only basic knowledge with all of this and little of Javasript so if there are scripts to put in, could you say where they go? Also Im making this in Acrobat 9 pro.
Thanks so much for any help offered.
Ian.

Actually it depends on how your DVD is set up and your menus.
Often we have movies with Audio Commentaries or Subtitles. Now you can get all complicated and have a Setup page etc or... you could have say an extras page which has a button that says somehting like Play Movie with Audio Commentary. In your timeline you have you movie with it's normal sound and then below that you have a second audio that is your commentary
Click on Play Movie with Audio Commentary button. In the Inspector (usually Bottom Left of the screen) you'll have the button Target as the movie. Below that you will see you have Streams with Drop down menus. In Audio select the second Audio Stream in the drop down.
Same goes for Subs which you'll see is there also. It all depends how you have your project set up and what you are trying to achieve.
This can also be achieved with scripting - which would probably be needed if your requirements are more complex.
Hope that helps

Flatten a PDF file from Excel

Flatten a PDF file from Excel
Is there any way to run a javascript to flatten a PDF document from Excel?
I’m populating a PDF form from Excel by creating a FDF file, once I finish I need to flatten it.
Is there any way to accomplish this without having Adobe Acrobat?
Thank you,
Luis Gonzalez

Reader cannot flatten a document, if that's what you're asking. A user with Acrobat installed can, in which case you can use VBA to control Acrobat. For exampe: http://www.khk.net/wordpress/2009/03/04/adobe-acrobat-and-vba-an-introduction/

Flattening a PDF moves stamps that exist within the document.

Hello,
I'm running Adobe Pro 9 and I have PDFs that contain multiple pages some of which contain stamps. When I flatten the file to make uneditable it will move the stamps to different areas on the same page they're on. Is there an option in PDF Fixups that will stop that from happening?
Thank you for your help.

Hi Dave,
I installed updates when I first encountered the problem. My user verified that it is indeed happening to all of the PDFs she flattens. Prior to going into PDF fixups and flattening, she would print the PDF document to PDF which would finalize it. The issue she was having with that was that it would start the process but within 5 seconds the message would pop up indicating that the job was done, the document would open but less than half of the pages would convert over. So a 145 page PDF would only show 20 pages after it was printed to PDF. I'll take a look at my flattener tool thank you for your response Dave.

Can I re-size the pages in a PDF document?

I've got a document done in Mac Pages. It turns out to be the wrong page size. It would be a lot of work to reposition everything again.
Is there any way with Acrobat Pro that I can resize the PDF pages in a PDF document?
I notice I can extract the individual pages ... if I could extract them and somehow import them back into a re-sized Pages document, then re-export them to PDF at the proper size???
Any help would be most appreciated,
Thank you,
Ben

Hi Aandi,
No problem with 'hard' copy or 'web' copy. I understand about compression.
But. Either way I've got the same problem with both versions. I did the original with the document page size set at 'legal' size, as was recommended by a particular print house we were going to use.
Here is the actual concept: www.howtosolveglobalwarming.info (see 'DVD' page link).
It turns out this was not a helpful recommendation. The 'booklet' is supposed to fit into a DVD case, which is about 7.25 inches in length (height).
I don't want to have to rebuild the original document page by page. I just want to resize the entire thing down from its original 'legal' size (8,5 X 14) to something more like 4.04 X 7.25.
The only way I can figure to do it with Acrobat is reset the page size, then output to 'print', but then I can't make a straight PDF, I have to make a Postscript (it seems) file, which I then have to convert back to a PDF ... (and I notice some odd artifact frames appearing around text-supered-over-graphics- which might disappear if I 'flatten' the original PDF file before outputting to Postcript and converting back to PDF??
I bet there is a simpler way. Any suggestions? Also, is there any function in Adobe Acrobat Pro that would allow me to add 'space' to one side of a page (as in Photoshop)?
Or perhaps I should extract each of the 30 pages, resize them in Photoshop, and then reconstruct the document in Pages (or Acrobat) using the Photoshopped pages?
Ben
Ben

Flattening a PDF that contains an XML file

Hi I am hoping someone can help me.
We have a PDF document that contains an XML form. We are starting to utilize DocuSign software to electronically sign and route our forms. The problem is that this form cannot be converted in the DocuSign portal. We need a way to flatten the software once it has been completed and all information has been input into the form and sent to us by a faculty member. I have downloaded a couple of different JavaScript add ons and have tried them. One doesn't seem to do anything the other one UVSAR_selectiveFlatten.js attempts to flatten the form but then quits and pops up the message "Security settings or digital signatures in this file prevent flattening."
When I look at the security settings under properties for the form it says "No Security" in the drop down box and there are no signatures in the form. I am attempting all of this on a blank form.
Flattening or printing to PDF works ok on a PC but we have a few Mac users and that is where our problems are coming in. The only option to print to PDF is the little drop down box in the bottom left corner of the print dialog box that says save as PDF. When we try this it pops up the message, "Saving a PDF file when printing is not supported. Instead, choose File > Save." File>Save just saves a copy with all of the XML code, etc.
The only other option we have found is to save the file as an image but this then breaks the file into 3 pages. We also don't want to print the form and then have to rescan it back in.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what we could do to flatten the image so that it could be easily uploaded to DocuSign.
A link to the form is here: http://rgs.usu.edu/spo/files/uploads/forms/SP-01.pdf
Any help or advice that you may have to offer will be greatly appreciated.

Ok, this is an XML/XFA/Designer form.
You cannot use JavaScript designed for Acrobat forms (Acroforms). I suspect that is the problem. You must develop JavaScript using the Designer JavaScript object model. Not sure if that even supports flattening, since it isn't really a PDF at all with all that XML stuff.

How do I flatten a pdf file to make it non editable

how do I flatten a pdf doc on my imac. I am trying to save and editable PDF doc to a non editable pdf doc

Go to '''Tools->Options->Application''', search for '''Adobe Acrobat Document''' and choose '''Always ask''' in the '''Action''' column.
If you wish to reset all the download actions try the instructions in this article
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions#Resetting_download_actions File types and download actions]

Save editable form into regular PDF document using Acrobat Reader

Hello,
With Adobe Pro, I've created a PDF form using the following:
Save As Other...
Reader Extended PDF
Enable More Tools (includes form fill-in & save)...
Once saved, I am sending this form to colleagues for them to fill out. These colleagues only have access to Acrobat Reader.
What I'm hoping to do is to have them save the file into a regular PDF document with the info inserted in the form but without the option to change the form info (change from editable form to regular PDF file).
Thanks for your help.

Hrm, OK. Well I actually DON'T have my document set as a reader extended PDF. If i fill out my fields then try to use the sign feature, it's not flattening the fields when I save/close reopen. They are still editable.
Just as a test, I saved it as reader extended and the sign feature is grayed out as you stated it should be. I am using acrobat X to create my fields and using reader XI to test inputting data/saving.
I need users to be able to fill it out, save then send and the recipient NOT be able to modify the fields. Am I missing something with the sign feature?
Thanks again for the reply!

Pdf document setup for print issues

Hey all,
I just happened to have a friend who is getting married asking me to make their invitations. I am not at all familiar with the print process (I'm a noob, just getting started), but managed myself to go with a print house that offers me guidelines about how to prepare my final artwork for them to print ( outline texts, line work no thinner than .5pt, Coated fogra 39, PDF/x-1a, no flattened artwork, cmyk values... I think I'm not forgetting anything).
I followed all the instructions and saved my PDF, but when I open it to previz, I get a horrendous result :O !
All the artwork seems to "break" (you know, sawed edges), but what's more worrying, is that there are kind of very thin gaps, transparent ones, that appear, as if I had the document sliced. I've opened the pdf in Photoshop, and added a red layer background to save a copy and insert it here, see if anyone can help me out on this one.
I would greatly appreciate your feedback,
Thanks and enjoy the weekend, those of you who can!
So any red slice that appears on my attached converted PDF document, is in fact transparent.
Ok uploader image tells me that "this type of image is forbidden"... Go figure!
anyways, if anyone is familiar with this issue and can help me out, please, you will save the date (and my life haha)

@silkrooster Image size is as requested for print by the print house: 1795 x 1287 pixels (300dpi), it will be printed on a A6 (european standard) and size (with bleed and all):
152mm x 109mm
5.98” x 4.29”
(300 dpi)
@Ton Frederiks
I do have all the original artwork in Illustrator, just wanted to check the resulting PDF Export in other apps... You know, curiosity killed the cat hahah... You explanation makes very much sense, although I'm a newbie, but I thought it might be something of that nature... I do hope anyway, that I could get a printed sample card before ordering the whole bunch... I would not like at all to ruin my friends wedding...
I have so much admiration for you all print artists and illustrators! I love that universe, but also am aware of the complexity and extended knowledge one must have... But hey, you gotta start somewhere!
Thanks a bunch, I'll have to wait on Monday to see what the Print House tells me, and hope not to have to bother you all anymore with this!
Have a great one!

Adding/Modifying a "Stamp" on a PDF document

Are there options within Adobe to (1) create a PDF version of a supplier's invoice, allowing the person creating the PDF file to include a "stamp" that shows what general ledger account(s) the invoice should be coded to; and (2) allow another person to edit that stamp by applying his/her initials of appproval?
A good internal control environment suggests that the person doing the initial coding should not have the authority to also apply initials of approval. I'm thinking that there's a version of Adobe Acrobat that allows for differing levels of access to a given PDF document?
Many thanks,
AlbertaRedneck

You can't alter the contents of a stamp after it's placed, but another stamp can be placed on top of an existing one. The first stamp can also be flattened, converting it to regular page contents, and the initials stamped on top.

Problem flattening dynamic PDF

Hi all,
we have a problem: we created a form using the designer and then we merge it with xml data. The output is a little pdf file (about 300kb) that take about 400MB of memory to be opened by acrobat reader.
I supposed that the reason is that the merging between data and layout is made dinamically by acrobat reader.
Am I right?
So, we try to flatten the PDF server-side to avoid client side merging but it doesn't work:
- if I try to use OutputService/transformPDF the process doesn't produce any error... it simply doesn't do anything... no pdf output, no error, no stalled process in the adminui... just this line of log
"2008-05-20 16:40:10,500 INFO [com.adobe.formServer.FormServer] ALC-FRM-001-501: FormName:6474897e6c92f44172d0f02e8e86bfd7 : FormPreference:PDFA : Debug:false : PDFVersion:null : Content Root:C:\temp\AdobeDocumentStorage\local\docm1211288446656 : Base URL:null : App Root:null : User Agent:null" and then nothing...
- if I try to use ConvertPDFService/toPS it raise an exception telling me that it needs a flattened PDF as input
"2008-05-20 16:51:20,500 ERROR [com.adobe.livecycle.convertpdfservice.exception.ConvertPdfException] ALC-CNP-001-304: Input Document is not a flattened PDF Document"
Any help?

Bryan,<br /><br />We solved this issue by removing <acrobat> tag in xml source for xdp file.

The updated Adobe Reader App on the iPad will not flatten a PDF Form before emailing.

My iPad automatically updated and since that update, we cannot fill in PDF forms and flatten to share via email. When we share via email it shares the original file. The help section shows that option to flatten the file, but when actually performing the functions it just automatically attaches the document to the email without that security option. Has anyone run into this issue? How did you resolve it?

As an update, I am finding that I can still send documents via email (and given the option to flatten) if the document was already in my adobe prior to this update, even if I changed the document. However, If I am opening a new document right now from dropbox or some other source and editing and saving it to adobe, it will only email the original blank document.

Signature drop down menu greyed out. I believe it is because I saved the pdf document after placing a signature. I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9

signature drop down menu greyed out. I believe it is because I saved the pdf document after placing a signature. I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9

Do you mean the drop-down list that shows up when you right-click on the signature (in the Signature Panel or signature field)?
I do not think that just saving a PDF with no changes would result in that unless you somehow flattened the PDF.
Can you see the signature in the Signature Panel? Can you expand ([+] at left) the signature? Does the Signature Panel provide info for this signature? Is the signature validated? If "yes" then is the signature status Valid?
It could be that when you saved the file you somehow flattened the signature, so that now you have only signature appearance in the PDF but not a real signature field which contains all signature properties. If the Signature Panel does not contain your signature (enpty if your signature was the only one) then this is the most likely cause.

Can you overlay two PDF documents, but use second PDF as watermark to first?

I have two PDF documents that I want to overlay page by page. (It's a long story, but the purpose is to create an PDF cast. Livescribe Education :: Guest Blog: How To Embed Text Behind a Livescribe Pencast PDF)
The known method to do this is basically overlaying a JPEG file on a PDF page. The process becomes extremely cumbersome if there are more than 2 pages of PDF. So I'm looking for a way to overlay one PDF file on top of another PDF file in the form of watermark.
Is there a plug-in or app that can facilitate this?

Open the first PDF with Acrobat Pro.
Now use the tool that lets you insert a background.
Select the second PDF.
Adjust the scale of this PDF (in the dialog) as needed.
When done consider flattening the layer.
Be well...

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