Does flattening a PDF remove author information?

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Does flattening a PDF remove author information?

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For example for a rectangle, or text box?

Also,
what happens with sticky notes when you flatten a PDF? Is it right that only the icon itself stays, but the content gets deleted?
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Re: Does flattening a PDF remove author information?

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Hello, MedBooster

As the flatten tool converts comments to base content, and base content does not have an "author" field, yes, the author data is deleted from those specific comments, by flattening. Likewise, yes for sticky notes, only the icon remains.

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Re: Does flattening a PDF remove author information?

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TrackerSupp-Daniel wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 9:48 pm Hello, MedBooster

As the flatten tool converts comments to base content, and base content does not have an "author" field, yes, the author data is deleted from those specific comments, by flattening. Likewise, yes for sticky notes, only the icon remains.

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Yes I was just curious because I use Samsung Notes sometimes to import PDFs, and that makes sticky notes just become icons , without any text properties, so I guess when you import PDFs into programs like these (previously edited by PDF-xce) they get "flattened"
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Re: Does flattening a PDF remove author information?

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Hello, MedBooster

very likely, I am not sure what format samsung notes uses primarily, but I do expect they are converting from PDF to another format for general use.

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