[jira] [Updated] (PDFBOX-4066) Flatten pdf does not remove acroform elements (checkboxes)

["Maruan Sahyoun (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4066?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Maruan Sahyoun updated PDFBOX-4066:
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    Attachment: TestForm-flattened.pdf

> Flatten pdf does not remove acroform elements (checkboxes)
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-4066
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4066
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: AcroForm, Utilities
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.8
>            Reporter: Al Phaba
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: TestForm-flattened.pdf, TestForm.pdf, flattenAndMerge.pdf
>
>
> I have a pdf with a lot of acroforms, I do some manipulation on it which results in a new pdf. So I have PDF-1 (which is the original one )and PDF-2 (just a duplication of PDF-1), now I want to merge them. Both PDFs have some acroforms for example: field_a, field_2...
> Before I merge them I flatten PDF-1, because I only want to have acrofields from PDF-2. When I check then my new merged PDF I can see that there are no visible fields on on the pages from PDF-1 and there are fields on pages of fields of PDF-2. At the first look it seems ok, but when I inspect the fields I can see that the merger has renamed all the fields for PDF-2 e.g. field_a_dummy123, field_b_dummy232 ...
> It seems to me, that flattening does not remove the fields and thats why the PDFMerger from PDFBox will rename the fields for PDF-2 because acrofields need to be unique.Another guess was that there is a bug in mergeAcroForm()
>  
> {code:java}
> @Test
> public void flattenAndMerge() throws IOException {
>     File testForm = new File(classLoader.getResource("./TestForm.pdf").getFile());
>     byte[] testFormAsByte = Files.readAllBytes(testForm.toPath());
>     byte[] testFormAsByte2 = Files.readAllBytes(testForm.toPath());
>     PDDocument pdf1 = PDDocument.load(testFormAsByte);
>     PDAcroForm acroform = pdf1.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
>     acroform.flatten();
>     Path flattendedPdf = Files.createTempFile("flatten", ".pdf");
>     pdf1.save(flattendedPdf.toFile());
>     PDFMergerUtility merger = new PDFMergerUtility();
>     merger.addSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(Files.readAllBytes(flattendedPdf)));
>     merger.addSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(testFormAsByte2));
>     merger.setDestinationFileName("./build/flattenAndMerge.pdf");
>     merger.mergeDocuments(MemoryUsageSetting.setupMainMemoryOnly());
> }
> {code}
> Here is my SO Article
> [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48271924/pdfbox-flatten-pdf-does-not-remove-acroform-elements?noredirect=1#comment83544858_48271924]
>  
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