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Jonathan0D45
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August 20, 2020
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Unable to share a flatten copy of a PDF.

  • August 20, 2020
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I have been struggling with this for a while now, I have share a flatted copy enabled in my preferences but when ever I try email a pdf it attaches the original version that is not flattened. I'm doing this on my iPad. 

 

the solution is to open it up on my desktop and save it as a flattened copy or if I'm out on site, I have to import it into another app and then save it as a flattened copy. Both not ideal. 

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Test Screen Name
Legend
August 20, 2020

What do you mean by "flattened" exactly? The word is used for at least four entirely different things in PDF, many of them not very useful.

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Jonathan0D45Author
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August 20, 2020

Well I sign off a check list and make comments on the document, I do this with Apple Pencil. 

the doc is 400kb initially after I mark up it could be 18mb and higher. So I email a flattened copy to the client, 1)  smaller size, normally a few mb 2) they cannot edit my notes.

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Test Screen Name
Legend
August 20, 2020

I'm not quite following, and I don't know which of the four meanings you are using. Please expand on "the solution is to open it up on my desktop and save it as a flattened copy" - what steps do you follow on your desktop to open and save a flattened copy. There is no "save a flattened copy" function in Acrobat Pro that I can see.

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