Keep a pdf form editable after filling it with pdftk

Question

I\'m using pdftk to fill a form but the output form isn\'t editable, when I open it on acrobat reader I\'m getting an error message: \"This document enabled extended featur

Answer 1

I had a pdf document that would generate this error whether or not I would use the "flatten" command when adding the form data.

I loaded the pdf document into Adobe Acrobat (version 9, don't know if that's relevant) and selected File | Save a Copy. With the new copy I was able to use pdftk to add form fields without the error.

Using flatten would produce text. Without flatten I got an editable form in Adobe Reader with data filled in.