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February 6, 2006

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

  • 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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    Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
    Hi Aandi,



    Yes I do. You know I am a freelance web designer and each time new project, new boss and different situation. I thought it would be easier to do it this way, at least for me! Thats all! I will send you link to this PDF form later; I love to know what real professional people like you think about it.



    Thanks a lot,

    Daniel
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    Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
    Try this:

    After filling out the form - print it to a PDF. This way, all the data stays where it is.



    Works for us.
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    Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
    Hello folks -



    I'm currently fighting a very simular battle. Is there no way to allow the permissions through Acrobat when you develop the file?



    I have a form with a button to send it to via email once it is completed. However, Reader 7 won't allow it to be saved before it is attached and sent.



    I can't ask the user to print it then attach and mail it.



    Any thoughts?



    Dwayne
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    Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
    Dwayne,



    Adobe has a product LiveCycle Reader Extensions that will allow users of Adobe Reader to save the data in the form. This way they can save the file (after) as well as send it. For more information see:



    http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/livecycle/readerextensions/devcenter.html



    Catherine

    Adobe Systems
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    Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
    You could also email the XML data instead of the full PDF.



    Chris

    Adobe Enteprise Developer Support
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    Anonymous
    March 1, 2006
    Can't save the forms??? $450 to buy professional to create forms and users can't save them. What a JOKE! I won't be buying any more copys of Professional...Thats for sure...or standard.



    Way to go!

    Catherine - Adobe Systems

    Chris - Adobe Enteprise Developer Support



    Keep up to good work!



    Disgruntled customer
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      deverdits
      December 22, 2011

      Thank you, finally someone woke up and smelled the roses.  You shove out $500 to buy something that can't do somthing simple as adjusting the size of an image, or allow you to save data in a form.  As everyone knows you can print the form to PDF and it will save the copy, WHY NOT MAKE IT EASY FOR THE USER TO BE ABLE TO DO THE SAME WITHOUT GOING AN EXTRA STEP?????  I'm fed up with the limitations that Acrobat puts on features that should be included.  It's horrible business tactic to make you buy something else.

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        AnonWebGuy
        January 26, 2012

        It's really sad to see the stance Adobe has with their products.  Someone asked a simple question and the response from Adobe was to go to a page to buy something that was total overkill for what they needed.  Adobe doesn't staff these forums with customer support, they staff them with salesmen.

        Shameful.

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        Anonymous
        March 4, 2009
        I agree with "disgruntled customer". Catherine, that link is not useful - I am more confused than ever, but I think I understand that LiveCycle Reader Extensions is a purchased product (never did find out how much) and I doubt that I'm going to get my 150 tax preparation clients to buy it in order to fill out my organizers electronically. Most of them don't even know how their free Reader works, much less what it takes to print anything to PDF, even though there are free competitors to Adobe which will let them do so.



        I was pretty excited about LiveCycle in my Pro version, until I found this out.



        Disappointed CPA
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        gkaiseril
        Level 8
        March 5, 2009
        Do you do taxes for free?



        Do you pay for tax software or do the programers give it to you for free?



        Well if you answered yes to any of the above, Adobe is making its living by creating software that can create forms, but it is not for free and the more features you want the more it will cost you.



        I assume you do not use Turbo Tax as your software, so you do pay more than $29.95 so you can have the advanced features to handle the more complex returns.
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        drdanj
        July 5, 2011

        You seriously miss the point. The issue is clarity. I got Pro 9 after reading of Adobe's own stuff saying it would let Reader users use the forms. After a week of frustration, I dug deeper and discovered you had to have Pro Extended to let Reader users use and SAVe the file. My complaint is to ask why Adobe is so obtuse with what's needed. Fine, I bought Pro Extended, they want to charge what they charge, fine. But make it clear that you need a specific version in the first place.

        Now I have X and cannot figure out how to extend to Reader users, and again the literature at least implies nothing else is needed for functionality of Pro Extended. Am I wrong? Did Adboe's lack of clarity once again put me in a loop where one more time I have to buy some toher thing to do what I need to do? It sure looks that way. Who writes your literature anyway?

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        gkaiseril
        Level 8
        March 5, 2009
        You can always try to Word and use Word's form fields to make your organizer.
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        gkaiseril
        Level 8
        March 5, 2009
        This does assume your users do want to use their computer this way.



        You are aware that there is a big security problem with any sensative. data being kept on a system with a WiFi and music sharing software, especially when this software is configured to also share data files or documents. Many of the sites warning of this are being censored because there is just so much personal data for so many persons being disclosed. Up to 27,000 returns at one time.
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