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haneadino
Inspiring
October 8, 2019
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How to flatten layers in Acrobat Pro pdf

  • October 8, 2019
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I have a large pdf-file that we need to print with our plotter. But the file we have got has so many layers, and it affects the print. So I would be very happy to know how to flatten those layers into one layer in Acrobat Pro!

Thanks a lot for your answer.

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    Test Screen Name
    Legend
    October 8, 2019

    Are these actually layers at all? You can have complex content with transparencies but there are usually no layers. Have you looked in View > Show/Hide > Navigation panes > Layers? 

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    haneadinoAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 8, 2019
    yes, when we look at View> Show / Hide> Navigation panes> Layers, - there was no layer. But it didn't look good when we printed this with the Plotter. After we had printed the Roll-up we went it through the Print Producton> Flattener Preview, and when we had done that we noticed that these pictures (I talked about at the top) where there was a transparency of approx. 5% behind the picture. And that's was that which the plotter printed. So how do you avoid this? But we did this: we opened this pdf in photoshop, and did the file as a jpg-file, and saved it as pdf. And then we printed again, and everything was fine. So the fact is , that we could not use the actually file, other than we went in to photoshop to change it.
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    haneadinoAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 16, 2019

    Try saving the file as encapsulated postscript file.


    Thanks a lot ls_rbls. We will try to do it next time. We had to save it as jpg otherwise we couldn't print it.
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      Test Screen Name
      Legend
      October 8, 2019

      How does it affect the print? Speed, quality, accuracy?

      Flattening layers should affect none of these, certainly won't speed up anything (it isn't like flattening layers in Photoshop).

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      haneadinoAuthor
      Inspiring
      October 8, 2019
      But it does. Because some images with transparent are placed at the top of the pdf file. This image is inside a square transparent, at is put on a rounding, (the rouning are done as vector). And when we print this , the transparent image comes as a spuare on the rounding, (it looks like ther is 5% transparent in it. But you don't see this on the pdf file when you when you look at it in Acrbat Reader - but it is on the print. So just thinking about knowing how to do this ias a one layer. (I didn't make this pdf myself) (Please sorry for my english)
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