No confusion at all...
I am trying to explain to you, so that you can pass it on to your manager, that
his requirement isn't really a valid or necessary one. Instead of destroying
the useful information in the PDF by "flattening" the annotations - you will
get a MUCH more reliable (and useful) PDF for archiving by converting to
PDF/A-1. PDF/A-1 also defines the rules for rendering - in the form of a
"conforming reader" and so when using one, again, no problems.
If you really want to "flatten" the annotations, then iText has all the
necessary pieces to do it in the form field flattener...
Leonard
From: Cameron Laird [mailto:claird.visipr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 9:13 AM
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] What's the opposite of "annotate or comment"?
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Leonard Rosenthol
<lrose...@adobe.com<mailto:lrose...@adobe.com>> wrote:
PDF/A (ISO 19005-1), the standard for long term archiving of PDF documents,
FULLY SUPPORTS live annotations. There is no reason to strip them out.
...
I've confused you. The request is not--NOT--to strip out annotations. As I
first wrote, I don't know what word to use to describe this requirement. The
manager wants to "render" the annotations so they are no longer annotations,
but have an indistinguishable visual image when, for example, printed.
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