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form_filling_not_permitted

HTTP 422 · code: "form_filling_not_permitted" · type: https://docs.formfeed.dev/errors/form-filling-not-permitted

The PDF given to /pdf/fill opens without a password, but its author restricted editing, and the restrictions do not allow filling its form. Formfeed keeps to them, so nothing was filled and nothing was charged.

A form whose restrictions allow filling, as public forms with an owner password usually do, is filled, and keeps its restrictions and its owner password.

Example​

{
  "type": "https://docs.formfeed.dev/errors/form-filling-not-permitted",
  "title": "Form filling not permitted",
  "status": 422,
  "detail": "antrag.pdf restricts editing so that its form may not be filled",
  "code": "form_filling_not_permitted",
  "render_id": "rnd_0d290c45cbeb4554b946bbad1acee87e",
  "request_id": "req_4b7c1e9a2f3d4c5b8a6e7f9012"
}

Common causes​

  • A PDF protected with an owner password and every change forbidden, form filling included.

How to fix it​

  • Ask whoever publishes the form for a version that allows filling.
  • If the form is yours, lift the restrictions with its owner password in your PDF program, or allow filling forms, then fill it.

Retry?​

Not with the same file.