Re: Can't save IRS PDF fillable forms.

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From: graffiti
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:01

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      and this can be accomplished from filled in pdfs by using any of the PDF-PERL
      packages to extract the contents and save them to anywhere you want.




But not after they've been printed to PDF. When you do that, the PDF is "flattened". You can't change what you have in it and you can't "extract" information from it. It essentially is no longer a form.

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