Is it possible to flatten transparency in a pdf using Adobe Reader or do I have to buy Acrobat?

I'm trying to create a book cover PDF using publisher and then saving as a pdf. But, that isn't flattening the transparencies. I only have Adobe Reader and am hoping that program will allow me to flatten the transparency in the native document. If I can't do this, odd lines show up on my printed books. Any ideas?

Modifying an existing PDF file is several magnitues more complicated than creating one from scratch. The PDF standard is VERY complicated and contains a myriad of features with their specific syntax elements. In order to modify an existing PDF you have to be able to understand every syntax element that occures in the PDF, or you may end up corrupting the file.
When you create a new PDF you can pick out the syntax elements that your tool supports and forget about the 95 other procent.
There are many PDF Toolkits than can create PDF files, a few that can open PDF files and present them, and almost none that can edit them. The Adobe PDF Editor being one of the few that can do that, but nobody is going to give away such a Toolkit for free.
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

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