A PDF processor written in Go.
View the Project on GitHub pdfcpu/pdfcpu
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.
pdfcpu form lock inFile [outFile] [fieldID|fieldName]...
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 │