PDFs: overriding "You cannot save data typed into this form"?

[Adam Funk]

On 2009-07-28, Chris Mohler wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Adam Funk<a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>> I find it very irritating when PDFs are configured so that acroread
>> says "You cannot save data typed into this form." and tells you to
>> print it out if you want an extra copy.  Does anyone know how to hack
>> the PDF to override this, or can anyone recommend a tool that ignores
>> that flag?
>
> IIRC, you can turn off the nag message in the prefs somewhere, but
> Adobe wants you to purchase Acrobat to save forms with data.  Printing
> to PDF would work, but as Raskae mentioned, the resulting PDF would no
> longer have editable forms...

Adobe doesn't block the save-data facility in general (IRS tax forms
can be saved with data and re-opened).  I think the PDF creator has
decided to set the obnoxious flag.