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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 :-}
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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