If you need to copy a PDF with annotations to a new PDF without annotations,
you can use PdfWriter to create a new pdf with all pages imported from the
source pdf. PdfImportedPage with PdfWriter does not preserve annotations.
Something similar to:
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
FileOutputStream("output.pdf"));
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("source.pdf");
document.open();
PdfContentByte canvas = writer.getDirectContent();
for (int i = 1; i <= reader.getNumberOfPages(); i++) {
canvas.addTemplate(writer.getImportedPage(reader, i), 0, 0);
document.newPage();
}
document.close();
you should also consider source page size and rotation.
Fabrizio
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Da: Cameron Laird <claird.visipr...@gmail.com>
A: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
Inviato: Dom 29 novembre 2009, 23:06:51
Oggetto: [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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