Flattening PDF and Georeferencing

[KaitlinB82C]

I would like to flatten my PDF to maintain comments and additional markups and not loose the documents original georeferencing. The PDF is original produced by ArcGIS; additional comments added in adobe acrobat; and then the flattening. This results in a pdf that maintains the markups but does not have georeferencing. How do I maintain the georeferencing with flattening? Thank you 

[try67]

How are you flattening it currently?

[KaitlinB82C]

Thanks for your help; I am currently flattening the document by using the Printer option: adobe PDF. 

[try67 · Accepted solution]

That's what I thought. It's not a good way of doing it. Instead, you should use the Preflight tool, if you have Acrobat Pro DC, or just this simple script, which you can execute from the JS Console:

this.flattenPages();

[KaitlinB82C]

Thank you very much; I used to preflight tool to flatten and my georeferencing was maintained.