SDK C++ - burn in annotations?

Hi,

You can select an annotation then run this script from the console window or from an action wizard:

var selectedAnnot=this.selectedAnnots;
if (!selectedAnnot) app.alert("No annots selected!",3)
else if (selectedAnnot.length>1) app.alert("Please select only one annot.",3)
else {
	var annots=this.getAnnots();
	var theAnnots=[];
	for (var i=0; i<annots.length; i++) {
		if (annots[i].name!=selectedAnnot[0].name) {
			theAnnots.push(annots[i].print);
			annots[i].setProps({print: false});
		} else annots[i].setProps({print: true});
	}
	var theFields=[];
	for (var i=0; i<this.numFields; i++) {
		theFields.push([this.getNthFieldName(i),this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i)).display]);
		this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i)).display=display.noPrint;
	}
	this.flattenPages({nNonPrint: 1});
	var annots=this.getAnnots();
	for (var i=0; i<annots.length; i++) annots[i].setProps({print: theAnnots[i]});
	for (var i=0; i<theFields.length; i++) {
		this.getField(theFields[i][0]).display=theFields[i][1];
	}
}

@+

In Acrobat this is called "flattening". Unfortunately people use "flattening" to mean 4 different unrelated things! But there is a JavaScript method to flatten pages, which takes the meaning you want, but for the whole of pages or file. In the plug-in API you can call JavaScript. Otherwise, the process of converting appearance streams to form XObjects and adding Do calls from the page contents is not actually impossible, but has no convenient API and requires deep PDF internals knowledge.