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----- Original Message ----- From: "ninan jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your questions about iText here" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:59 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF saving is not possible > Hi Paulo, > > Thanks for your help!!! > > I was able to edit and save the PDF file (that got generated from iText) > only once. When I tried to open it and save it again, I got a warning > like that as of before - ""This document contained certain rights to > enable special features in Adobe Reader. The document had been changed > since it was created and these rights are no longer valid. Please contact > the author for the original version of this document." > > I need the populated PDF to be editable and savable forever. Could you > please help? > > Thanks, > Jackson Ninan > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Post all your questions about iText here > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, 20 August, 2008 4:02:49 PM > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF saving is not possible > > See http://1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=example&id=348. > > Paulo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ninan jackson" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > To: > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:52 PM > Subject: [iText-questions] PDF saving is not possible > > >> Hi, >> >> I used iText for populating the PDF which was an editable/savable >> version, >> which was created by Adobe Pro 8. After populating the PDF using iText, I >> lost the ability to edit the populated PDF using Adobe Reader. What I >> believe is happening is that when the PDF is populated by iText, the >> meta-data associated with the file is not retained, specifically, the >> meta-data that defines whether the PDF can be edited and saved from Adobe >> Reader is being rewritten by some other meta-data (which now disallows >> the >> Adobe Reader from editing/saving the text entered into the PDF). >> >> The original PDF passed over to the application to be populated was >> created using Adobe Pro 8. Using the acroform fields, I populated the PDF >> with some data that was already stored in my application. But my >> requirement is that the end user should be able to open the PDF that I >> populated and he should be able to edit and save the PDF with his changes >> (using Adobe Reader). >> >> Note that if the user has Adobe Pro, he will be able to edit and save. >> But >> I need to have this same thing working with Adobe Reader. >> Can you please help me? >> >> Thanks, >> Jackson Ninan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
