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New Release PDF Forms Flattener 3.0 Datalogics

Datalogics Releases PDF Forms Flattener 3.0

PDF Forms Flattener is a command-line utility offered by Datalogics. This simple standalone utility works with Windows 64 platforms and allows you to flatten documents containing PDF Forms – both AcroForm and XFA. When you run PDF Forms Flattener, the program flattens the input PDF and saves it as a new output document. PDF Forms Flattener is a fast and simple way to convert a PDF form document into a standard PDF file, making it easy to distribute. Datalogics recently launched Forms Flattener 3 … Read more
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PDF Forms Flattener is a command-line utility offered by Datalogics. This simple standalone utility works with Windows 64 platforms and allows you to flatten documents containing PDF Forms - both AcroForm and XFA. When you run PDF Forms Flattener, the program flattens the input PDF and saves it as a new output document. PDF Forms Flattener is a fast and simple way to convert a PDF form document into a standard PDF file, making it easy to distribute. Datalogics recently launched Forms Flattener 3.0, with new features not previously available in the utility. Here’s an overview of these features:

Update includes New Import, Export, and Conversion Capabilities

New Export Features

Forms Flattener can export data from XFA and AcroForms documents.

Forms Flattener 3.0 allows users to export data from XFA documents to the following formats:

  • XML
  • XFD
  • XDP

Ability to export data from AcroForms documents to the following formats:

  • XML
  • XFDF
  • FDF

New Import Features

Forms Flattener can import data into a blank PDF form document (or set of form documents), save the document as a completed form, and then flatten it.

It is now possible to import data (same supported formats as export) into AcroForms or XFA without flattening the output document. This can be done using the '-f skip' parameter-value combination.

New Conversion Features

  • Forms Flattener 3.0 adds the ability to convert XFA documents to AcroForms documents using the '-c' parameter.
  • It also adds the ability to generate annotation appearances without flattening using the '-f skip' parameter-value combination.

Click here to start your free trial of PDF Forms Flattener.


Datalogics, Inc. provides a complete SDK for PDF creation, manipulation and management for companies around the globe. Built on Adobe source code, our flagship product Adobe® PDF Library offers a choice of programming platforms and languages along with unsurpassed customer service, proven by our 94% customer retention rate. Datalogics offers…

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