# mutool bake

The bake command bakes PDF forms into static content.

	mutool bake [options] input.pdf [output.pdf]

The options are:

-A
: Do not bake annotations into page contents.

-F
: Do not bake form fields widgets into page contents.

-O options
: See [PDF write options](/reference/common/pdf-write-options). If none are given `garbage` is used by default.

input.pdf
: Name of input PDF file.

output.pdf
: Name of output PDF file. If none is given `out.pdf` is used by default.

Normally annotations and form field widgets are separate content streams
that get drawn on top of the page contents. This command bakes
annotations and/or widgets into the page contents, making them
inseparable. After baking in annotations and widgets they are just
visual representaitons of what the original annotation/widget looked
like, their properties can no longer be edited since they no longer
exist as proper annotation/widgets.
