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Anonymous

Save PDF file with all data typed into form by using Adobe Reader! HELP!

Forum|Forum|19 years ago
February 6, 2006
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Hello,

This is my first time here and I have a little problem. I designed the form in the Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 and saving it as dynamic PDF. All I want is to fill it out, save a copy of that in hard drive and then email it as a attach file. I don't want any XML data file or any thing else, I want real completed document in PDF. That's all!

We can save a copy of completed document in Adobe Acrobat Pro but how we can save it in Adobe Reader?

My form is some thing like this (link below), every time you open it in Adobe Reader, it will tell you that "You cannot save data typed into this form." and let you print it.

Example: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants/sf269.pdf

But at this link

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf

you can cancomplete this form and save a copy of it into your hard drive with all data typed for ever. Yes by using Adobe Reader! But I have a no idea HOW?

Does anybody have any suggestion? Please any help solving these problems would be most appreciated.

Thanks again,

Daniel

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Dave_Hoder

Just to add an updated response to this thread:

in Acrobat Pro v9 go to the menu and select Advanced > Extend Features in Adobe Reader...

In Acrobat Standard v9 go to the menu and select Advanced > Extend Forms Fill-in & Save in Adobe Reader...

You can now save the form with your data.

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Anonymous

Many thanks to Dave Hoder.

In Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional for Mac, I found the command was named differently:

Advanced: Enable Usage Rights in Acrobat Reader

Save your PDF form with that option enabled, and then your users should be able to save their edits. Hope that helps.

Note: They will be saving their edits to the same PDF, not to a copy, so if they need to fill out the same form twice, or want to keep a backup, they need to use Save As.

For the tax preparer concerned about her customers: Even with the additional Adobe software, it sounded like your tax prep clients wouldn't have had to buy the software -- just you, so you could modify your docs so that your end-users could save the filled forms (and do more, I guess). However, I still agree with you -- selling Acrobat so that people can make PDF forms but then limiting it so you can't make useful PDF forms is chintzy. Adobe clearly doesn't need to stoop to such levels to make money. They should just empower the software to make good docs easily. However, this thread started three years ago; perhaps what I'm seeing in the "Enable Usage Rights" command is Adobe's agreement with us.

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Audition_Denver

I've read through this entire thread, but nothing seems to apply to

Acrobat X Pro and LiveCycle Designer ES2. There isn't an Advanced menu option in either product, thus no "Enable Usage Rights in Acrobat Reader" option either. Did it move? If so, to where?

I found that if I choose Save As.. in X Pro there's an option "Reader Extended PDF" with 3 choices, but none are available.

I'm looking for what a number of others were looking for: I've created a form I want to send via email, have someone complete, save, and re-attach to an email message, which will come back to me. Nothing fancy at all.

Can anyone help? All the online tutorials are for earlier versions of Acrobat Pro. I must be on the bleeding edge.

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CallMeReV

Level 2

For a PDF to be filled and the data to be saved, we have 2 options.

1 ) Reader extend the PDF using Reader extension feature in Adobe LC

2 ) Use Acrobat Pro to edit is and save.

In your case . I think u have to make the file reader extended.

Other wise make sure ur user is opening with Acrobat Pro for editing and saving.

thanks

ReV

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Audition_Denver

Thanks ReV. Since I cannot expect all recipients of this form to have Acrobat vs. Acrobat Reader, I need to use the extend to Reader feature/command. But since I cannot find that option, or what I have found is not allowed, per my post, in X Pro, I'm stuck. I cannot find any X Pro information such as tutorials, help text, posts, etc. Even Adobe hasn't updated it's library of how to videos for X Pro. Very frustrating!

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Wegwer

Almost 5 years talking about the same problem, jeeez!

I’m within the same problem scope:

Using Acrobat Standard 7 and Livecycle Designer 7 ES2 to create a form which the user can fill in, save as a PDF complete with their details and email back to me.

Surely we can move away from the print out and fax option of the 90’s!?

For this version of Livecycle ES2 (as Audition_Denver has alluded to above), there seems to be no “ADVANCED” menu option in LS2 therefore removing the possibility of “enabling usage rights”.

In this case I only have one form to make, can someone suggest a solution? Maybe an alternative download to the READER EXTENSION file?

Colin (Toronto)

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CDesign2

Level 3

I thik this link may help solve your problem

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/10.0/Professional/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7e0d.w.html

Best of luck

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Audition_Denver

Many thanks CDesign2, that worked! I was a little leery when I saw the article seemed to be for Acrobat 8, but the menu choice was there and sub-choices were available. They must have been grayed out before because I was still in Edit mode.

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Audition_Denver

Can someone from Adobe help? How is this handled in your latest releases, X Pro and Lifecycle ES2?

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Wegwer

Can you explain further Audition Denver? I’ve read the link but still can’t achieve the desired. I’m trying to open the form I’ve created using Livecycle Designer ES2 in Acrobat Standard 7.0 (which I can’t do…it produces an error message). Did you open the form in a more recent version of Acrobat? Or did you open it in Adobe Reader? I.e. where did you find this menu option?

Thanks

Colin

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Audition_Denver

Hmm. I opened the form I created in ES2 in Reader 9.I hope it'll work with earlier Readers. I'll have the confirm that.

First, I first opened the file in Acrobat X Pro, made sure I was not in Edit mode, chose Save As.., selected Reader Extended PDF, then Enable Additional Features.

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Wegwer

Sounds like I need a more up to date version of Acrobat than my current Standard 7.0 version. When I try to open the form I’ve created it produces an error page:

“Adobe Acrobat 7.0 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.”

So maybe it’s not possible to open a form created in Livecycle Designer ES2 in early versions of Acrobat Standard/Pro. I think I have read the solution you are talking about Audition Denver and it referred specifically to Acrobat 8.0, 9.0 and Pro. At least one of us is sorted out. I will try and look for an updated version of Acrobat for download so I can complete this one form I’m stuck doing.

Cheers

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CDesign2

Level 3

In Livecycle ES2 there is an option under Form Properties>Defaults that lets you choose the target version of Acrobat and Reader that will be using your form. If this is set at v9.0 or X, you may be preventing the form from being openend in the older versions.

Good luck

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Wegwer

Good info CDesign2, I didn’t realize that option existed. I’m currently downloading the trial version of Acrobat X Pro and intend to modify my form in the same way that Audition_Denver has mentioned. Failing that, I will try to change the target version that my Livecycle form is set up for. Thanks for your help.

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Wegwer

As a final follow up to this question, I downloaded the trial version of Adobe Acrobat X Pro from the Adobe website (30 day trial). Using this program to open the form I had created in Livecycle Designer ES2, I was able to alter the reader extension protection as Audition_Denver has described above.

Thanks for the help and good luck in the future to other people faced with a similar problem.

Icobbne

Level 3

I've placed an order yesterday and realized that we cannot creat form that users can save their datas with Acrobat X and I just cancelled order. That must be joke!! That way is disrespect to the users who showing respect licensing matters!!!

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CDesign2

Level 3

You CAN create a form that allows users to save their data using Acrobat X...or more correctly the software bundled with Acrobat X. You create the form in Livecycle Designer and then if you wish for your users to be able to fill in and save the data using Acrobat Reader, then you open your form in Acrobat, "Save As" and choose Reader Enabled (Can't quite remember the exact wording)...it is still a similar process to what has been happening in previous versions...just found in a slightly different place

Hope this helps

Icobbne

Level 3

Hi,

File > Save As.. > Reader Extended PDF ( This option is Greyed out)

Is Livecycle Designer paid product? I believe yes so whats the point to have Acrobat? We are buying a software whihc is specifically designed to create pdf files and look at this surprise I am really sorry but I can do almost everything with the Word 2010 and export as pdf already! I only needed that software to create fillable forms and its not working and I have to buy another software. This is absolute disrespect to the honest users.

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Anonymous

I am in the middle of taking a Company to Court and the papers that I will serve are on the Small Claims website in the UK. These are in PDF format and site clearly states that this information that is typed in cannot be saved. Now I filled in the information and saved it to a printer program called CutePDF.

This is not a printer as such but it saves a copy of the PDF form complete with any typed in text. This can then be, for example, sent as an attachment in an email or even printed out but you cannot change any of the information unless you go back to the original. I also found that if you need to change the information and then save to CutePDF you have to delete the previous saving. I imagine that there are other ways to use the CutePDF file but I would need to experiment.

I hope that this helps some of you but if not then I apologise for wasting your time.

Regards

Dave

Icobbne

Level 3

Hi,

To make the form fillable and savble all you have to do with Acrobat X (Not livecycle) Save As > Reader Entended PDF > Enable additional features. Then press "Save Now" button on the next window. Thats it, you now able to fill and save the forms. Thanks very much who replied this post

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cheryl.clayton

I will be out of the office starting 12/10/2010 and will not return until

12/14/2010.

If you need immediate assistance please contact Evelyn Berry, Ext. 1060.

I will respond to your email upon my return.

Thank you.

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