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

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flatten pdf form with pdf sdk in C# using ByteScout Premium Suite

Learn to code in C# to make flatten pdf form with pdf sdk with this simple How-To tutorial

The documentation is crafted to assist you to apply the features on your side easily. ByteScout Premium Suite was made to help with flatten pdf form with pdf sdk in C#. ByteScout Premium Suite is the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording.

Save time on writing and testing code by using the code below and use it in your application. Follow the steps-by-step instructions from the scratch to work and copy and paste code for C# into your editor. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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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);
        }
    }
}