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

[sktsee]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:15:46 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:

> On 2009-07-28, Rashkae wrote:
> 
>> Adam Funk 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?
> 
>> Print to a pdf printer should do the trick nicely.  Of course, you
>> would
>>  then loose the form elements, so the resulting pdf could not be edited
>> easily.
> 
> Good idea as far as saving an electronic copy is concerned.
> 
> The other thing I really want to do (and I should have made this clear)
> is fill in part of the form, save it, and finish it later.

You can do that with Evince on IRS forms, so I guess it should work for 
others. There's a gconf key for it called "override_restrictions" that 
gets around copy and print restrictions that are set in PDF's. Might give 
that a whirl.

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sktsee