Karl Cunningham wrote:
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?
I am able to use Linux (Fedora Core 5) with KDE and Adobe Reader 7 to
read, write and save California's Form 540 (06_540.pdf) from here:
<http://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/06_forms/06_540.pdf>
Perhaps you have a permissions problem with regard to where you are
trying to save the completed form. When I open the Form 540 in Adobe
Reader I get a status bar that says "You can save data typed into this
form" across the top of the form under the toolbar. Or maybe you
downloaded the wrong forms. Some of the forms can be filled in and
others can't. See <http://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/help.html> for more info.
Make sure the file you are attempting to write isn't marked read-only.
Which forms are giving you problems?
Gus
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