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Gerben Wierda
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September 22, 2022
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Is there a way to flatten individual comments?

  • September 22, 2022
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I have a form that contains some labels that have been created as comments. I'd like these comments to be flattened into the document, but I'd like to leave the form fields alone. Is. there a way to do that?

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Correct answer JR Boulay

Selective Flattener is a free plugin for Acrobat: https://www.uvsar.com/projects/acrobat/flattener/

 

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Flattening individual comments simplifies discussions and improves communication

JR Boulay
JR BoulayCorrect answer
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September 23, 2022

Selective Flattener is a free plugin for Acrobat: https://www.uvsar.com/projects/acrobat/flattener/

 

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    Gerben WierdaAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 23, 2022

    That seems an easy solution. Is there a safe way to install this outside the application bundle on macOS?  It seems that inside the bundle is a location that may get overwritten on updates. I think I used to have a flatten operation like that when I was still using Acrobat X Pro.

    try67
    try67
    Community Expert
    September 22, 2022

    Not directly, but there are ways around it. For example, you can do the following (in this order):

    - Export all comments to an FDF file.

    - Delete the comments you don't want to flatten.

    - Flatten the file.

    - Import the comments back from the FDF file.

    - Delete the comments you do want to flatten (and have already did).

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    Gerben WierdaAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 23, 2022
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    Not directly, but there are ways around it. For example, you can do the following (in this order):

    - Export all comments to an FDF file.

    - Delete the comments you don't want to flatten.

    - Flatten the file.

    - Import the comments back from the FDF file.

    - Delete the comments you do want to flatten (and have already did).


    By @try67


    Step 3: flatten the file. How exactly? If I try. that using advanced optimizatio the comments are removed, not flattened. And to be precise the file has comments which I want to flatten, sticky notes (that only show up in macOS Preview), and form fields) thar I want to leave alone.

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