Debenu Quick PDF Library - PDF SDK Community Forum : Has FlattenFormField been improved? http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 04 May 2026 12:33:32 +0000 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:19:40 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.01 360 www.quickpdf.org/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1200 <![CDATA[Debenu Quick PDF Library - PDF SDK Community Forum]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/forum_images/QPDF_Forum_Title.png http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/ <![CDATA[Has FlattenFormField been improved? : gkell wrote:Unfortunitly,...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/has-flattenformfield-been-improved_topic1200_post5764.html#5764 Author: JuanMaria
Subject: 1200
Posted: 28 Oct 09 at 7:19PM

Originally posted by gkell gkell wrote:

Unfortunitly, I generate multi page pdfs. So, for me to merge the individual pages into one, they need to be flattened. Have any ideas?


Umm, I haven't got my source here right now but I could swear that I merge several PDFs with forms with no problem as long as I don't flatten them.

My problem was that I did not want the final recipient of the documents to be able of modify the fields values and that was what I wanted the flattening for.
]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:19:40 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/has-flattenformfield-been-improved_topic1200_post5764.html#5764 <![CDATA[Has FlattenFormField been improved? : Unfortunitly, I generate multi...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/has-flattenformfield-been-improved_topic1200_post5763.html#5763 Author: gkell
Subject: 1200
Posted: 28 Oct 09 at 7:14PM

Unfortunitly, I generate multi page pdfs. So, for me to merge the individual pages into one, they need to be flattened. Have any ideas?]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:14:26 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/has-flattenformfield-been-improved_topic1200_post5763.html#5763 <![CDATA[Has FlattenFormField been improved? : Yep, I&#039;ve tried to change...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/has-flattenformfield-been-improved_topic1200_post5762.html#5762 Author: JuanMaria
Subject: 1200
Posted: 28 Oct 09 at 6:45PM

Yep, I've tried to change the order of the operations but I'm still getting garbled results when flattening doccuments.

What I'm doing is password-protecting the unflattened docs so the recipient cannot modify the fields.
]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:45:28 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/has-flattenformfield-been-improved_topic1200_post5762.html#5762 <![CDATA[Has FlattenFormField been improved? : I have the same issue generating...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/has-flattenformfield-been-improved_topic1200_post5761.html#5761 Author: gkell
Subject: 1200
Posted: 28 Oct 09 at 6:33PM

I have the same issue generating pdfs. Data some how gets mixed when flattening. Here is the code used to flatten:

For i = CLng(pdf1.FormFieldCount) To 1 Step -1
       If CStr(pdf1.GetFormFieldValue(i)) <> "" Then
            lret = pdf1.FlattenFormField(i)
       Else
            lret = pdf1.DeleteFormField(i)
       End If
Next

If I don't flatten data it's fine, however, I have to flatten to merge all generated pdfs together.
 
This needs to be resolved. thanks.
]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:33:55 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/has-flattenformfield-been-improved_topic1200_post5761.html#5761 <![CDATA[Has FlattenFormField been improved? : I missed the thread at http://...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/has-flattenformfield-been-improved_topic1200_post5549.html#5549 Author: JuanMaria
Subject: 1200
Posted: 04 Sep 09 at 4:14PM

I missed the thread at http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/random-field-displacement_topic1106.html it seems to be my same problem so I understand that it still happening on the latest versions and that changing the merge/populate order might do the trick.
]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:14:32 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/has-flattenformfield-been-improved_topic1200_post5549.html#5549 <![CDATA[Has FlattenFormField been improved? : Hi,I&#039;m still using the old...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/has-flattenformfield-been-improved_topic1200_post5546.html#5546 Author: JuanMaria
Subject: 1200
Posted: 04 Sep 09 at 8:24AM

Hi,

I'm still using the old -and unsupported- 5.11 version but, for the time being, it works mostly fine for me.

The most annoying problem I'm having is with the FlattenFormField function that, some times and randomly, garbled my documents by putting fields on different places, changing the orientation/format or duplicating them on the document.

I've been looking at the release notes on the QuickPDF Blog but I haven't seen anything about this subject.

Does anyone know if there has been made any improvement on this function?.

I know that there is a trial version but, since the problem seems to occur randomly, I wolud have to recompile my application, install it on the customer system and wait for the problem to occur or not to and I wouldn't like to involve my customer on this without having some expectatives.

Thanks in advance.


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