Cameron Laird wrote: > 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.
Does your manager know that there are annotations that are: - visible on the screen, but not printed - invisible on the screen, but printed - visible on the screen, and not printed - invisible Which of the above does he want flattened? Only the ones that are printed? Also the ones that are only visible on the screen? Also the invisible annotations? If he says that having invisible annotations doesn't make sense then he's wrong: I've written an application once where the invisible annotation was a hint on an examination PDF. If the student didn't know the answer, the annotation with the hint appeared AND COVERED THE EXISTING CONTENT; the annotation could be made invisible again by clicking it. Suppose you have this kind of annotation in your PDFs. Suppose that you flatten these annotations. Then you'll cover the existing content, you risk making large parts of your PDF illegible. Is this what your manager wants? Does he want to make part of the PDF useless? This is typical a request that I, as an employee, would refuse unless the manager can prove that he knows the implications of what he's asking. Always remember that you aren't paid to do what managers ASK, you are paid to do what managers NEED. As far as I can tell, your manager doesn't NEED the annotations to be flattened. As soon as he understands what he's ASKING, he should understand that he's asking something he DOESN'T EVEN WANT. You can probably save him a lot of money by forwarding this mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
