Re: Fedora helps with taxes :-).

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com&gt;:

>  My tax software has endless lists of financial institutions
>  it can import data from, and none of them are ever any of
>  my financial institutions :-).
>
>  So over the years, I've developed the habit of downloading
>  the PDF tax forms so I can at least cut & paste the correct
>  numbers with no transcription errors.
>
>  Lo and Behold, this year everyone seems to have discovered
>  the wonders of protected PDF files locked against cut & paste.
>  Sigh... :-(.
>
>  Enter the pdf2ps and ps2pdf tools on fedora! Convert the stoopid
>  protected pdf to postscript then the postscript back
>  to pdf and the furshlugginer protected flags are gone!
>
>  Now I can cut & paste again... 
Nice tip, Tom! Thanks!

Dave

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