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A PDF processor written in Go.

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Lock form fields

This command makes form fields read-only. Either supply a list of form field ids taken from the output of pdfcpu form list or skip field ids in order to lock the whole form.

Have a look at some examples.

Usage

pdfcpu form lock inFile [outFile] [fieldID|fieldName]...


Common Flags

name description values
v(erbose) turn on logging  
vv verbose logging  
q(uiet) quiet mode  
u(nit) display unit po(ints),in(ches),cm,mm
c(onf) config dir $path, disable
upw user password  
opw owner password  


Common Flags

name description values
v(erbose) turn on logging  
vv verbose logging  
q(uiet) quiet mode  
u(nit) display unit po(ints),in(ches),cm,mm
c(onf) config dir $path, disable
upw user password  
opw owner password  


Arguments

name description required
inFile PDF input file containing form yes
outFile PDF output file for dry runs no
fieldID form field id no
fieldName form field name name


Examples

Lock the field with name dob1:

$ pdfcpu form lock english.pdf dob1
writing english.pdf...

$ pdfcpu form list english.pdf

english.pdf
Pg L Field     │ Id | Name       │ Default          │ Value                    │ Options
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 1   Textfield │ 30 | firstName1 │ Joe              │ Jackie                   │
     Textfield │ 31 | lastName1  │ Doeby            │ Doe                      │
   * Datefield │ 32 | dob1       │ 01.01.2000       │ 31.12.1999               │
     RadioBGr. │ 33 | gender1    │ male             │ non-binary               │ female,male,non-binary
     ListBox   │ 34 | city11     │ Vienna,São Paulo │ San Francisco,Vienna     │ San Francisco,São Paulo,Vienna
     ComboBox  │ 35 | city12     │ San Francisco    │ Sidney                   │ London,San Francisco,Sidney
     CheckBox  │ 36 | cb11       │                  │ Yes                      │
     Textfield │ 37 | note1      │                  │ This is a sample text.\n │


Lock all form fields making the form read-only:

$ pdfcpu form lock english.pdf
writing english.pdf...

$ pdfcpu form list english.pdf

english.pdf
Pg L Field     │ Id | Name       │ Default          │ Value                    │ Options
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 1 * Textfield │ 30 | firstName1 │ Joe              │ Jackie                   │
   * Textfield │ 31 | lastName1  │ Doeby            │ Doe                      │
   * Datefield │ 32 | dob1       │ 01.01.2000       │ 31.12.1999               │
   * RadioBGr. │ 33 | gender1    │ male             │ non-binary               │ female,male,non-binary
   * ListBox   │ 34 | city11     │ Vienna,São Paulo │ San Francisco,Vienna     │ San Francisco,São Paulo,Vienna
   * ComboBox  │ 35 | city12     │ San Francisco    │ Sidney                   │ London,San Francisco,Sidney
   * CheckBox  │ 36 | cb11       │                  │ Yes                      │
   * Textfield │ 37 | note1      │                  │ This is a sample text.\n │