"flattening" ouput pdf

[Richmond]

On 26/04/14 20:46, Richmond wrote:
> On 26/04/14 20:01, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>> I am using "print cardName into  . . . " to generate pdf output.
>>
>> This leaves me many (but not all) editable fields and clickable 
>> checkboxes.
>>
>> As this is for filing with court, and these "survive" the court impact,
>> this is bad.  Very bad.
>>
>> Is there a way to "flatten" the pdf output so that it isn't editable?
>>
>
> As far as I know there are 2 types of PDF:
>
> Those with an embedded text layer,
>
> and those without one.
>
> As I had a "lot of fun" a while back rescuing some work done on a 
> Macintosh under Mac OS 8.1
> with Clarisworks I tried to export the text (opened in my G3 iMac 
> running 9.2) it as a PDF with
> an embedded text layer and got a "flat" pdf; later on I managed to 
> import the file into Mac OS 10.4
> running Appleworks 6 (the son of Clarisworks), have a lot of fun with 
> bitmapped fonts, and
> get a pdf with an embedded text layer.
>
> Your problem seems to be the reverse: you don't want an embedded text 
> layer.
>
> Reading in the Documentation I came cross this:
>
> "The implementation of pdf printing resides in a dynamic library 
> called revpdfprinter."
>
> The question at this point is whether the presence of an embedded text 
> layer is determined by
> 'revpdfprinter' or the operating system LC is operating on.
>
> 'revpdfprinter' is nowhere to be seen in the Application Browser.
>
> It might not be a bad idea to have a look here:
>
> https://github.com/runrev/livecode/tree/master/revpdfprinter
>
> The only snag about this is that it does not contain a livecode stack, 
> just raw code.
>
> There is also a 'revpdfprinter.so' file inside the Livecode folder;
>
> But I have not had much joy opening it.
>
> Richmond.

Frankly; if you don't want anybody extracting text from your exported 
files you might be better
exporting them as image files ??????

Richmond.