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Thread #126546   Message #2811798
Posted By: Tootler
14-Jan-10 - 10:52 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Saving encrypted pdf from Firefox
Subject: Tech: Saving encrypted pdf from Firefox
I've just been completing my (UK) tax return.

When I got to the end, I selected the option to save my return to disk. This came up as a pdf file but when I tried to save it I got a message stating "You do not have permission to write to this file".

I rang the help desk and the man who answered the phone was able to tell me how to save the file with Internet explorer in Windows. As I am using Firefox in Ubuntu Linux, this was not a lot of use. Unfortunately the man on the help desk did not know to do this in Firefox and did not even know what Linux was, so pleasant as he was he was not a lot of use either.

It seems that the pdf is sent in an encrypted format and you need to check or uncheck something that enables the browser to decrypt and save the file. I have had a look round Firefox but have not found how to do this.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Geoff