FlattenFormField

Form fields, Page layout

Description

Use this function to draw the visual appearance onto the page it is associated with. The form field will then be removed from the document and only it's appearance will remain - it will no longer be an interactive field.

If the field is flattened successfully the field index of subsequent form fields will be decreased by 1.

Syntax

Delphi

function TQuickPDF0813.FlattenFormField(Index: Integer): Integer;

ActiveX

Function QuickPDF0813.PDFLibrary::FlattenFormField(Index As Long) As Long

DLL

int QuickPDFFlattenFormField(int InstanceID, int Index)

Parameters

Index

The index of the form field to work with. The first form field has an index of 1.

Return values

0	The form field could not be found or it was not possible to flatten the form field
1	The form field was flattened successfully