ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Flatten pdf form with pdf sdk

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flatten pdf form with pdf sdk in C# with ByteScout PDF Suite

Simple tutorial on how to do flatten pdf form with pdf sdk in C#

ByteScout tutorials describe the stuff for programmers who use C#. Flatten pdf form with pdf sdk in C# can be applied with ByteScout PDF Suite. ByteScout PDF Suite is the set that includes 6 SDK products to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript.

C# code snippet like this for ByteScout PDF Suite works best when you need to quickly implement flatten pdf form with pdf sdk in your C# application. Follow the steps-by-step instructions from the scratch to work and copy and paste code for C# into your editor. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample C# codes to add flatten pdf form with pdf sdk functions using ByteScout PDF Suite in C#.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDF;

namespace FlattenFormExample
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to flatten a filled PDF form (make it uneditable).
    /// </summary>
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Load filled PDF form
            Document pdfDocument = new Document(@"filled_form.pdf");
            pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo";
            pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo";
            
            // Flatten the form
            pdfDocument.FlattenDocument();

            // Save modified document
            pdfDocument.Save("result.pdf");

            // Cleanup 
            pdfDocument.Dispose();

            // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("result.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}