I want to flatten a pdf with signatures from a form but I am using this code and when I generate the final pdf I can still delete the signature. What I want is that when I generate the final pdf, I cannot delete anything at all from the pdf
private static void flattenPDF(String src, String dst) throws IOException {
PDDocument doc = null;
try {
doc = PDDocument.load(new File(src));
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
}
PDDocumentCatalog catalog = doc.getDocumentCatalog();
PDAcroForm acroForm = catalog.getAcroForm();
if(acroForm == null) acroForm = new PDAcroForm(PDDocument.load(new File(src)));
PDResources resources = new PDResources();
List<PDField> fields = new ArrayList<>(acroForm.getFields());
processFields(fields, resources);
acroForm.setDefaultResources(resources);
try {
acroForm.flatten();
doc.save(dst);
doc.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
private static void processFields(List<PDField> fields, PDResources resources) {
fields.stream().forEach(f -> {
f.setReadOnly(true);
COSDictionary cosObject = f.getCOSObject();
String value = cosObject.getString(COSName.DV) == null ?
cosObject.getString(COSName.V) : cosObject.getString(COSName.DV);
System.out.println("Setting " + f.getFullyQualifiedName() + ": " + value);
try {
f.setValue(value);
} catch (IOException e) {
if (e.getMessage().matches("Could not find font: /.*")) {
String fontName = e.getMessage().replaceAll("^[^/]*/", "");
System.out.println("Adding fallback font for: " + fontName);
resources.put(COSName.getPDFName(fontName), PDType1Font.HELVETICA);
try {
f.setValue(value);
} catch (IOException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
} else {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
if (f instanceof PDNonTerminalField) {
processFields(((PDNonTerminalField) f).getChildren(), resources);
}
});
}