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
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