PDF Forms Flattener Release Notes

PDF Forms Flattener 4.2.0 (February 14, 2025)

Corrects a problem Flattening some XFA documents where a TextEdit field was shared across pages.
Corrects an erroneous error that could occur attempting to export form data from an AcroForms document in some cases.
Corrects a crash that could occur due to corrupted memory when flattening a XFA document in rare cases.
Support for Flattening AcroForms as if printed has been added.

Problem Corrections:

New Features:

New Features:

Problem Corrections:

SF#45662 - This corrects an issue where a DateTimeEdit field with improper formatting could be dropped from the Flattened result. This corrects an issue where Text underneath a barcode could be slightly cropped in the Flattened result.
SF#45892 – Corrects a problem where Flattening a XFA document could result in a Signature being dropped.
SF#46015 – This corrects a problem flattening a XFA document with a shared Text Field intended for displaying content on different pages.

New Features:

Adds the ability to Export data from XFA PDF files to disk as .xdp, .xfd, or .xml file.
Adds new parameter "flatten, -f" with value "skip" to import data from disk to XFA without Flattening.
Adds new parameter "flatten, -f" with value "skip" to Import data from disk to AcroForms without Flattening.
Adds the ability to export data from Acroform PDF files to disk as .xfdf, .fdf, or .xml files.
Adds new option "--convert, -c" to convert XFA to AcroForms.
Drops support for positional parameters.* Arguments must be passed using the existing -h, -i, -o, -d delineators.
- "-asprinted was removed and refactored into the new "flatten, -f" parameter. It can be used as "-f asprinted".
- Adds new parameter "flatten, -f" with value "skip" to generate missing annotation appearance without flattening.

PDF Forms Flattener 2.3.0 (December 15, 2022)

Problem Corrections:

SF45276 – This corrects a problem with preserving the formatting of XFA fields when a document is Flattened.

PDF Forms Flattener 2.2.0 (August 11, 2022)

Problem Corrections:

SF#45182 – Corrects an issue in which the formatting of a XFA fields was not preserved when Flattened.
SF#45186 – Corrects an issue in which Flattening an XFA document could result in a blank document.

PDF Forms Flattener 2.1.0 (April 1, 2022)

New Features:

Problem Corrections:

SF#44687 – Corrects an issue in which a Dynamic XFA document using JavaScript to define its layout of elements could fail to be converted to PDF as expected.

PDF Forms Flattener 2.0.2(August 4, 2021)

New Features:

SF#44445 – Corrects an issue in which flattening an XFA document with a shared Text Field using Rich Text could result in missing elements after flattening.

PDF Forms Flattener 2.0.1 (July 7, 2021)

New Features:

Adds a new optional command line argument --asPrinted or -p, which will flatten an XFA document as if it was printed.

Problem Corrections:

SF#44011 – Corrects an issue which could result in an exception being raised when flattening an XFA document.
SF#44292 – Corrects an issue that could result in a duplicated text when flattening an XFA document with a shared text field using Rich Text intended to display content on different pages.

PDF Forms Flattener 1.0.0 (May 4, 2020)

Initial release of a simple command line application.

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