michaeln12812341

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Question

flatten/remove form fields

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
October 4, 2018
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Acrobat Pro DC.

Is there a better/easier way to remove form fields besides printing to pdf? One of the most used features in acrobat is the forms, and sending a form after it's filled out with the form fields still present creates an opportunity for someone else to edit whats been entered.

I cant believe printing to pdf is the only/ easiest solution.

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Actually, flattening doesn't prevent editing in any real or useful way. Just stops one app (the free Acrobat Reader) doing it.

Adobe Employee

You can use Redact Tool > Remove Hidden Information to flatten the forms field.

Read more at https://helpx.adobe.com/in/acrobat/11/using/removing-sensitive-content-pdfs.html#find_and_remove_hidden_content

Community Expert

Community Expert

You can use a script to do it. It's literally one line of code:

this.flattenPages();

Community Expert

Community Expert

You can flatten the form fields.

michaeln12812341Author

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Would appreciate if you could let me know how.

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Community Expert

Check out this free tool: UVSAR : Selective Flattener tool for Adobe Acrobat 8, 9 and X