ByteScout PDF Suite – VB.NET – Flatten pdf form with pdf sdk

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flatten pdf form with pdf sdk in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Suite

Build flatten pdf form with pdf sdk in VB.NET

Step-by-step instructions on how to do flatten pdf form with pdf sdk in VB.NET

This page explains the steps and algorithm of implementing flatten pdf form with pdf sdk and how to make it work in your application. ByteScout PDF Suite was made to help with flatten pdf form with pdf sdk in VB.NET. ByteScout PDF Suite is the bundle that provides six different SDK libraries 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.

The below SDK samples describe how to quickly make your application do flatten pdf form with pdf sdk in VB.NET with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. Follow the steps-by-step instructions from the scratch to work and copy and paste code for VB.NET into your editor. Use of ByteScout PDF Suite in VB.NET is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

ByteScout PDF Suite is available as a free trial. You may get it from our website along with all other source code samples for VB.NET applications.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDF

''' <summary>
''' This example demonstrates how to flatten a filled PDF form (make it uneditable).
''' </summary>
Class Program

    Shared Sub Main()

        ' Load filled PDF form
        Dim 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 document in default PDF viewer app
        Process.Start("result.pdf")

    End Sub

End Class