Unlock form fields

This command makes locked form fields writeable. Either supply a list of form field ids taken from the output of pdfcpu form list or skip field ids in order to unlock the whole form.

Have a look at some examples.

Usage

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

Common Flags

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

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	no

Examples

Unlock the field with name dob1:

$ 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 │

$ pdfcpu form unlock 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 │

Unlock the whole form in english.pdf:

$ pdfcpu form unlock 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  │ 37 | cb11       │                  │ Yes                      │
     Textfield │ 38 | note1      │                  │ This is a sample text.\n │