This year I'm trying to do my taxes completely in Linux, and I'm very close to succeeding. The only hangup is that the pdf fill-in forms from the state of CA have some sort of access rights that so far have been successful at keeping me from filling in the forms and saving them in Linux. I have no problem with the federal forms.

I'm using Adobe Acrobat reader 7.0 for Linux, which naturally respects this ownership bs. I can view the form but can't fill in any of the fields. I see numerous shareware for windows that will remove this stuff, but I haven't found such a thing for Linux.

I opened up the form with Adobe Acrobat 5 (not reader) in windows at work and I can fill in the form and save it. But when I open this partly filled-in form with the Linux Acrobat Reader it won't let me fill in any fields or edit the ones I filled in in windows.

What I really want to do is just fill in the forms and save them. Can someone suggest a way to do this without resorting to windows?

Thanks.

Karl Cunningham


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