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

Adam Funk a24061 at ducksburg.com
Wed Jul 29 19:30:23 UTC 2009


On 2009-07-28, sktsee wrote:

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

>> 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.

When I tried it, it gave the impression of doing what I wanted, but
when I re-opened the typed-in PDF (in acroread and evince) my typing
had disappeared.  I'll keep tinkering with it.  Thanks.





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