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varxtis
varxtis
Inspiring
March 13, 2019
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Android Acrobat - How to save as image or flattened?

  • March 13, 2019
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Im working on a project where the form I'm creating will need to be filled out once a day on an android device. Think of a Pad form, you fill one out, tear it off, and the next one is waiting nice and clean for ya underneath.

I've created my form with fields, everything looks pretty. I saved it to my phone, opened it up, filled out the form. It's awesome.

BUT... for the purpose Im using it, I need to be able to fill out the form, save it in some sort of flat form (preferably PDF) allowing me to save it with current date as the file title, and then reset the form for the next day/use.

So what am I missing? How do I do this?

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varxtis
varxtisAuthor
Inspiring
March 15, 2019

Does anyone have any experience with an app called qPDF Reader for android? The full version gives you a slew of features, including "flatten". It works exactly how I need it to work, except for one small thing. I can't seem to figure out if you can save as a new document/file. When I open the pdf, I'm able to view it just the way I want, fill out the fields just the way I want, and even flatten the fields. But once I flatten and "save" it overwrites the document. Two things I don't understand and was hoping someone here might have experience with the app:

1.) Even though the document is permanently flattened once you save, it seems to only be for qPDF Reader. When I reopen the same file, the one I just flattened and saved in qPDF Reader, in acrobat, it shows blank fields that I can still type in. It doesn't make much sense.

2.) referring to qPDF reader, I cant save as a separate file when/once I flatten.

Does anyone have any feedback?

try67
try67
Community Expert
March 13, 2019

This is not really possible on an Android. Instead, you should digitally sign it.

varxtis
varxtisAuthor
Inspiring
March 13, 2019

Can you explain this option a bit? I'm kind of confused as to the point of the sign feature at all. When I have a paper document, I fill it, and I sign it indicating I approve what's been written or filled out. You hand off the paper knowing that your initials/sig is safe there because it's pretty unlikely someone will clear the paper of everything you've penned down, and replace it with their own.

With the acrobat document, there seems to be no security in it at all. From what I've seen, (and I did just do it to double check) unless I'm able to do what I was initially asking (flatten) I'm basically passing off the document that the next person can clear/reset, but now it has my initials/signed on it. Congrats, I just sold my lung.

How does digitally signing help make a permanent copy with information in fields permanent/locked?

try67
try67
Community Expert
March 13, 2019

A digital signature field can be set to lock all the fields in the file when it is signed.

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