[opensuse] Re: Is it possible to edit and save PDF forms?
Carlos E. R. wrote:
If anybody is writing "something", he or she should have a look at pdftk. This can fill in forms and can save them.
I did look at it.
It is a command-line tool and not a viewer, though, and therefore no solution for Carlos' problem. But it is an application where one can get open-sourced code for that problem.
It has options to change the permissions a pdf file. But even using "allow AllFeatures", the user of acroread is denied access to save the file or annotate or any of those things. I tried.
As I wrote, pdftk is not a solution to your problem. You look for a viewer and pdftk is not a viewer. It was a hint for persons that want to work on PDF viewers. pdftk has a fill_form operation that "fills the single input PDF's form fields with the data from an FDF file or stdin." Also relevant is the dump_data operation (that tells which form fields are in a PDF file) and the flatten operation (that "merges an input PDF's interactive form fields (and their data) with the PDF's pages.") These are NOT the permission changes that you mentioned, this is a different functionality. Btw, allowing PDF annotations with acroread are a whole different matter whatsoever. No open source tool is known to me that allows that -- AFAIK, one needs to digitally sign the file with a key from Adobe for that. What means that the difficulties are very high to achieve that functionality. Lastly, in case, that this was too implicit: I follow the PDF tool landscape closely, and, to my knowledge, there is no PDF viewer on Linux that does what you want. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-08-14 at 09:43 +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
If anybody is writing "something", he or she should have a look at pdftk. This can fill in forms and can save them.
I did look at it.
It is a command-line tool and not a viewer, though, and therefore no solution for Carlos' problem. But it is an application where one can get open-sourced code for that problem.
It has options to change the permissions a pdf file. But even using "allow AllFeatures", the user of acroread is denied access to save the file or annotate or any of those things. I tried.
As I wrote, pdftk is not a solution to your problem. You look for a viewer and pdftk is not a viewer. It was a hint for persons that want to work on PDF viewers.
Right.
pdftk has a fill_form operation that "fills the single input PDF's form fields with the data from an FDF file or stdin." Also relevant is the dump_data operation (that tells which form fields are in a PDF file) and the flatten operation (that "merges an input PDF's interactive form fields (and their data) with the PDF's pages.")
Ah.... I'll have to look that up. I'll pass this info on to the Spanish list.
These are NOT the permission changes that you mentioned, this is a different functionality.
Btw, allowing PDF annotations with acroread are a whole different matter whatsoever. No open source tool is known to me that allows that -- AFAIK, one needs to digitally sign the file with a key from Adobe for that. What means that the difficulties are very high to achieve that functionality.
Ough :-(
Lastly, in case, that this was too implicit: I follow the PDF tool landscape closely, and, to my knowledge, there is no PDF viewer on Linux that does what you want.
That's what I thought, but I wanted a second opinion on that. You confirm my fears, but thankyou :-} - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGy4adtTMYHG2NR9URAghUAKCSFLn1jXn2cv0qxEGo/GbjlGqFWQCfajxm 8JeVAvryd+rRnPmxYTaujso= =/kBv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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