Flatten PDFs in PHP?

Question

Hi,

I wondered if it was possible to flatten PDFs using PHP? I use fpdf to create and collate from a collection of PDFs however when php has processed it some information is missing such as the comments.

I get sent several thousand PDFs every month that go on the companys website. I do need to display the comments? I Know I can flatten it down in Acrobat Pro by using the javascript debugger ( this.flattenPages() ). Is there anyway to automate and save the information using PHP? As long as its displayed on the doc im not too bothered.

Many Thanks

Mike

Answer 1

There are a bunch of tools mentioned here, one of which might do what you want:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7364/pdf-editing-in-php
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265760/generating-pdfs-with-php

Answer 2

See Filling PDF Forms with PHP. Near exact duplicate...