Have read that the option "print to pdf" should be available on drop-down print menu but it's not there. there are many options under Save As but I don't understand them. nothing says "flatten" for example. Trying to upload doc to federal court and they insist it be "flattened."
The PDF Printer is only available on Windows machines.
Regardless, you need to ask them what they mean by "flattened". It can mean at least three different things in the PDF world and if you use the wrong one they'll probably reject your application.
Any printer interface window in Acrobat has an option to create the output file as a PDF. I expect this option is also available in Reader or any program on the Macintosh.
Adobe softwares are limited to not being able to use MacOS PDF Services and there are good reasons for that (which have nothing to do with flattening).
Use a script to make fields read only and set the default value of the field to the value of the field. The last step will keep the current value if the form should ever be reset.
Thanks for the responses. I don't have the option in the Adobe software when I select print, to print to pdf. So, I ended up sending it to a staff member who has a PC and she did it by choosing Optimize PDF, then discard objects, then flatten form fields. then she sent to me, I uploaded it to the court website and they accepted it.
I think I have those same options on the Adobe software I'm running but I wasn't brave enough to play around with it like she was,
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