Flatten shapes created as comments

Run this code in the console window

this.flattenPages();

It'll flatten all annotations in the PDF.  

There is a free flattening tool here:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Free_Acrobat_Automation_Tools.cfm 

There is a selective flattening tool here, but it's not free:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Selective-Flatten-Tool-Description.cfm

You can flatten them.  However, the process will flatten all annotations and all form fields unless you do it properly.  You must set the bNonPrint parameter to 1 (Non-printing annotations are left as is) and then set the form fields display property to display.noPrint and set  the print property of any other annotations that you don't wish to flatten to false.  After flattening, change the displays and print properties back to the way they were.  The flattening script to run would be:

this.flattenPages({bNonPrint: 1});

You can simply run this script in the console.  If you are using Standard, I don't believe you can open the console with the UI so create a button (visible but doesn't print) with the following mouse up action:

console.show();

www.pdfscripting.com used to have a free tool that automates all of this for you.  I don't know if it's still available.

Please can someone help me in filling out the forms