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Flatten PDF

Lock filled form fields so they can't be edited

Flattening turns interactive form fields into ordinary page content. The values stay visible exactly as they look now, but the fields themselves are gone - so nobody can change or clear them afterwards. This is what you want before emailing a completed form.

Form fields are flattened; comment and markup annotations are left intact. To flatten absolutely everything, use Grayscale PDF or Redact PDF, which re-render the pages at the cost of selectable text.