[Gllug] Programmatically filling in PDF forms

[Ian Norton]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:21:36PM +0000, Mamading Ceesay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been looking at ways of scripting the filling in of Adobe Acrobat
> PDF forms.  I've been trying various combinations of pdftk, pdftops,
> pdf2ps and ps2pdf to accomplish this.
> 
> The main obstacle is that the PDF that I want to fill in, wasn't
> created by me and the Owner Password has been set.  This prevents me
> from query the form fields and subsequently from filling them in.  In
> an ideal world, I would go back to the creator of the PDF and ask them
> to resolve the issue at source.
> 
> As we are in the real world, I need a workaround (or perhaps a PDF
> password cracker).  I've been bashing my head against this, so I would
> welcome any useful ideas that could lead to a solution.

I found a set of utils today called 'pdfjam' they are in debian and apparently
do form filling (either that or im getting confised with the one called pdftk)

that might help you,

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Ian Norton-Badrul

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