Saving/flattening a pdf with form to pdf with just the data no widgets

[jonnya]

Hi Jorj -

I am trying to get a form pdf filled and saved.
Looping through the widgets and updating.
Tried the code you suggested at the end.
The saved flattened pdf has the background image, logo etc but no data in it.
Not sure where to go with it.

import fitz

doc = fitz.open('form.pdf')
page = doc[0]

for field in page.widgets():
print(field.field_label)
print(field.field_name)
field.value = "testing"
field.update()
print(field.value)

pdfbytes = doc.convert_to_pdf()
new = fitz.open("pdf", pdfbytes)
new.save("flattened.pdf")

[JorjMcKie]

I guess I would need an example. The following at least works fine. This the demo PDF:
widgettest.pdf

Doing this:

import fitz
doc=fitz.open("widgettest.pdf")
page=doc[0]
w=page.first_widget
w
'Text' widget on page 0 of widgettest.pdf
w.field_value
'Times-Roman'
w.field_value="some new text"
w.field_value
'some new text'
w.update()
pdfbytes=doc.convert_to_pdf()
new=fitz.open("pdf",pdfbytes)
new.save("x.pdf")
doc.close()
new.close()
new=fitz.open("x.pdf")
new.is_form_pdf  # the resulting PDF has no fields anymore!
False

leads to this:

[JorjMcKie]

Just realized it:
You must use .field_value, not just .value!

[jonnya]

Thats it !
Thank you * 100 !

[jonnya]

I have 1 more question on this.
The pdf is getting flattened and the fields show up with their strings fine.
There is another string that was a web link www.site.com and when flattened it collapsed the www. to 1 w in the same space as the s over typed. Any way to fix this?

[JorjMcKie]

Not really. The MuPDF function behind this is not bug free, and then there may be problems with one of the fonts around that part of the page.
It also may be some peculiarity in the way the original page is coded, etc.