Question
How to flatten PDF file in Pega.
Hi All,
I need your help for flattening the PDF file in Pega.
Can anyone please let me how to flatten PDF file in Pega
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Pegasystems Inc.
US
not aware of any OOTB implementation. In general, you may need to write your own java code to accomplish this with the help of some open source libiraries (e.g., pdfbox, pdbclown). Pega does ship pdfbox 1.8.8, but does not seem to be used anywhere, but I am not sure pdfbox has the java api to do what you need, check the website for details: https://pdfbox.apache.org/index.html. If you have to use java, suggest you build the application code outside pega, and then you can easily move the code to some activities with java step.
Pegasystems Inc.
CA
Pega ships with a 3rd party library called iText. You could use this to flatten your PDF. Obviously you will have to write custom Java code to achieve this. See this for reference: http://developers.itextpdf.com/examples/form-examples/flattening-form