Why would you want to do that? You use all the usefulness of the comments -
including information about who made them, when they made them, and any
associated notes that they added to go along with them...
Leonard
From: Cameron Laird [mailto:claird.visipr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 5:07 PM
To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [iText-questions] What's the opposite of "annotate or comment"?
How do I "flatten" comments and annotations?
I doubt that my question has much to do with iText; however, after looking
through The Book and The Standard, I still don't even know how to phrase my
question well, so I ask the indulgence of the list: please help me figure out
at least the right keywords to use in investigating this matter.
Quite a few applications decorate a PDF instance with "annotations",
"comments", "sticky notes", ... How can I "flatten" (I recognize that's a
misnomer, with a specific meaning related to FDFs) an annotated PDF into an
"integral" PDF with the same appearance? The Preview application supplied with
Mac OS does what I want: "print as PDF" produces just the "flattened" form I
want, in which the comments are visible, but appear as part of the document,
and are no longer comments. While I suspect that iText or perhaps other
libraries give me programmatic access to the same operation, I haven't figured
out what it's called well enough to identify it in The Book or elsewhere.
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