About Acroforms and permissions

Hello anyone!
I'm writing an application, using the Gnostice VCL Toolkit http://www.gnostice.com/PDFtoolkit_VCL.asp that, given a set of data (generated launching a query on a db) and a blank acroform programmatically generates a new PDF file that consists in a form filled with the given data. I was wondering about how document restrictions can interfere in the process, I suppose that if the extraction of the document data is restricted the application couldn't retrieve critical data as the number of fields, their name, thair format and so on. I searched the PDF specifications document but I was unable to find exactly what every permission setting allows/denys.
Can please someone link me documentations on such topic?

If the PDF has "can't change" restriction enabled, then you won't be able to SET the field values. But retrieving the information is open PROVIDED that the PDF does have not a "user password" OR that the software knows the password.

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following line producesan Exception (directory
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I have been using Linux on the desktop for many years now, but unfortunately my knowledge about servers is very limited, almost non-existent. Therefore my question is most probably equally well fitting here and into the newbie corner.
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Last edited by hydrosIII (2014-11-06 06:26:45)

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chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00005.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00006.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00007.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00008.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00009.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00010.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00011.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00012.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00013.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00016.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00017.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00018.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/mar07_copyoff/pics_nmovies/DSC00019.JPG: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/davegray/Documents/GGbackup/2007-copyoff/nov07copyoff/london mums/LaunchU3.exe: Operation not permitted
I tried to open, amend and save a file (not related to any of the above document paths) and am still getting:
"The file may be read-only, or another user may have it open. Please save the document with a different name or different folder."

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