Editable PDF forms

[Former Community Member]

Hi, newby here so sorry if this is obvious, but how do I create a form in Live Cycle Designer 8 so that other people who only have Acrobat Reader can edit the text fields and then save it electronically....?

Thanks in advance

Brendan

[HowardTreisman]

Hi

For people who only have Reader, then can enter data into the form, they can submit it electronically (via email or http), but they can't save it locally. To enable this, you need to purchase a license for something called Reader Extensions, which is sold by Adobe on a per-form basis.



There are some other ways to do things that don't require reader extensions. For example, you can save the partially completed form on the server, rather than locally, as is done by the Adobe Form Manager product. There are some other techniques you can use, which will depend on the use-cases for the solution you are trying to build.



If you would like to explore this further, we have considerable experience with this, and would be glad to help - email info-at-avoka.com.



Regards,

Howard

http://www.avoka.com

[Former Community Member]

VETERAN DESIGNER, NEWBIE USER LiveCycle 8 Question:



I didn't ask for the "pencil" icon (it doesn't seem to be an icon, object, or image according to the Help menu) to appear in the text fields. What do I select (or deselect) to get rid of it. The "pencil" text fields also enter gibberish symbols instead of standard alphanumeric text.