Hi Thomas, thanks for your advice!
Unfortunately your advice does not work. If I get the Fields over the COSDictionary (as you recommend) AdobePdfReader still shows the form-fields. Just PDFBox does not recognise the form-fields any more. Do you (or someone else) have any idea whether I have to do something different or something else (eg. delete some further COSObjects...)? Any further advice is appreciated! Thanks and best regards Lukas "Thomas Chojecki" <[email protected]> 23.01.2013, 15:17h: > Hi! Hi Lukas, > > How do I "flatten" a PDF-form (remove the form-field but keep the > text of the field)? > > Jason asked this question already. > (see > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/pdfbox-users/201009.mbox/%[email protected]%3E) > The answer was this: >> a quick way to do this, is to remove the fields from the acrofrom. >> For this you just need to get the document catalog, then the >> acroform and then remove all fields from this acroform. >> The graphical representation is linked with the annotation and stay >> in the document. > > So I wrote the following code. > I can write some text in the form-field. But I don´t know how to > remove the form-field. > Any ideas? > > Thanks for your help! > Lukas > > [some code] You will need to get the Fields over the COSDictionary. Try this code... PDDocument pdDoc = PDDocument.load(new File("E:\\Form-Test.pdf")); PDDocumentCatalog pdCatalog = pdDoc.getDocumentCatalog(); PDAcroForm acroForm = pdCatalog.getAcroForm(); COSDictionary acroFormDict = acroForm.getDictionary(); COSArray fields = acroFormDict.getDictionaryObject("Fields"); fields.clear(); Hope this help. Best regards Thomas
