Fedora helps with taxes :-).

[Antonio Olivares]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: horsley1953 at gmail.com
> Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:59:03 -0400
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Fedora helps with taxes :-).
> 
> 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...
> --

I did something similar with a locked pdf for a fellow colleague.  She was very happy to edit the new pdf :)  With gs (ghostscript ) many things are possible and it is great that Fedora carries it by default!

Best Regards,


Antonio 

It would be nice if it could help with ObamaCare, but that would be asking for too much :(

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