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PDFsam, a desktop application to split, merge, mix, rotate PDF files and extract pages
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Removal of Acrobat's "Clear Data" button on fillable forms #639

Open Kosimek opened 2 months ago

Kosimek commented 2 months ago

Adobe adds a button on the top-right corner of the pages for PDFs that are fillable. The problem is that when I want to extract only certain pages, that button shows in the extracted PDF pages, I don't know if it is possible but it would be very useful if PDFsam could remove that button when it creates the extracted pages. My only option to get rid of it now is to print the pages, scan them and put them back into a PDF document which takes up significantly more file space since it contains images rather than text. Would be great if that could be accomplished. Thanks

kijato commented 1 month ago

As far as I know the Pdfsam never changes the content. An adobe script or target software is more suitable for this.

Could you print your documents to a new PDF without markups, stamps and others?

I found it: The ‘Clear data’ button: ... The ‘clear data’ buttons are set so that they are visible on screen but do not print.

torakiki commented 1 month ago

PDFsam Basic doesn't change the page content stream but it does change/remove annotations in some cases

kijato commented 1 month ago

I believe it, but I've never experienced it. In what situation can this happen? When is it worth paying attention to the phenomenon?

Kosimek commented 1 month ago

You see it every time you open a fillable PDF with acrobat, there is a blue "Clear Data" button at the top right corner of the page.

[PDFSam Clear Data button.jpg]

If I try to remove pages from the file using PDFsam, the button prints as an image. If I print the file with Acrobat, the button does not print. Although I doubt it, I was just wondering of there is anything that can be done about this. Thanks for getting back to me.

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