How do I import a PDF with typewriter objects?

I have a saved .pdf with text created by the typewriter tool. When I import the .pdf in InDesign (I'm using CS4), the typewriter text disappears in the InDesign document. I cannot find any preferences or settings in either Acrobat or InDesign that solves this problem. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Text that is typed into a PDF file via the Typewriter Tool (anyone remember what a “typewriter” is?) is treated as an annotation just as cross-outs and highlights applied to existing text are.
InDesign (and Illustrator) only import the base PDF document, not annotations.
What you need to do is to flatten the annotations into the base document. This may be accomplished via executing a one line JavaScript will flatten all annotations / comments within a PDF file into the base document. This line of JavaScript is:
this.flattenPages();
This is documented in the JavaScript API Reference that is part of the Acrobat X SDK, freely downloadable from Adobe's web site.
This function is more fully documented in the PDF file I've attached to this posting.
After this process, the resultant PDF file will fully place within your InDesign (or Illustrator) document!
Adobe most strongly recommends that you not “refry” a PDF file by printing to the Adobe PDF printer to get a new PDF file. Printing from Acrobat is optimized for printing, not PDF creation.
- Dov

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