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"This operation is not permitted" when saving PDF through a plugin

Mar 26, 2012 3:52 PM

Not sure what I am doing wrong. It appears as though I've followed the PDF Reference and documentation correctly, but I am getting this error when my plugin trys to save my PDF file to a new location (dont want to overwrite the original).

 

Here is the sample code. I hope what I am doing wrong is easy to fix.

 

 

 

 

PDDocClose(currentPDDoc);

ASPathName filePathName = ASFileSysCreatePathName(NULL, ASAtomFromString("CString"), replacedSavePath.c_str(), 0);

PDDocSave(currentPDDoc, PDSaveIncremental | PDSaveLinearized, filePathName, ASGetDefaultFileSys(), NULL, NULL);

1990 Views   4 Replies   Latest reply: Eldrarak82, Mar 27, 2012 6:29 AM
 
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  • BarlaeDC
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    1. BarlaeDC,
    Mar 27, 2012 1:55 AM   in reply to Eldrarak82
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    Hi,

     

    The first thing I notice is that you have closed the currentPDDoc before you try and save it. I think you need to save it before you close it.

     

    I also not that you are saving linearized, this means that you need to make sure that any 'acquire' functions that you have called have been release, for example

    PDDocAcquirePage() or PDBeadAcquirePage(). - see documentation for more information.

     

    Hope this helps

     

    Malcolm

     
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  • Eldrarak82
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    2. Eldrarak82,
    Mar 27, 2012 5:59 AM   in reply to BarlaeDC
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    Well I checked for any "Acquire" functions in my code and there are none, so I attempted to move the closing of the PDDoc after the save, and I got the same problem. Any other ideas?

     
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  • Karl Heinz Kremer
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    3. Karl Heinz Kremer,
    Mar 27, 2012 6:26 AM   in reply to Eldrarak82
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    You can do an incremental save when you save to a new location - there is

    nothing to add the new information to. You need to call the function with

    PDSaveFull.

     

    You may not have acquired any objects explicitly, but chances are that if

    your plugin is doing anything useful, you have acquired something through

    some of the methods you called. Make sure that you know what the side

    effects of every API function you call are, and then release whatever is

    still acquired before you save the document.

     

    Karl Heinz Kremer

    PDF Acrobatics Without a Net

     

    khk@khk.net

    http://www.khkonsulting.com

     
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  • Eldrarak82
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    4. Eldrarak82,
    Mar 27, 2012 6:29 AM   in reply to BarlaeDC
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    Ahh the problem was that the file was secured with a password. The documentation mentions:

     

    Known Exceptions

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Raises

     

    pdErrOpNotPermitted if saving is not permitted. Saving is permitted if either edit or editNotes (see PDPerms) is allowed, or you are doing a full save and saveAs

    is allowed.

    

    

    So I looked for that exception in the docs and it said:



    pdErrOpNotPermitted

    This operation is not permitted. Acrobat

    security does not allow content copying

    or extraction. These operations should

    be permitted when the document’s

    master password is used.

     

    So for anyone getting this error, try removing security from the file first.

     
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