[Moved to AEM]

You can't buy LCRE without a full LiveCycle ES server installation. It doesn't run on desktop machines, and prices for a complete ES license start at five figures plus the costs of a server to host it.

I'm talking about Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer.If you're opening a file from inside a browser window, make sure you've saved a copy to a sensible place on your local hard drive before editing it. You can't save back to the server.

Make sure you don't have the folder open in Windows Explorer with the 'preview' area enabled.

LiveCycle ES pricing is not published. Contracts are negotiated per-client by Adobe Sales staff, based on the specific customer requirements.What I can say is that for enterprise LCDRM setups you should be thinking of five figures USD.

BIG CAVEAT!!Applying extended rights using Adobe Acrobat Pro limits you to 500 responses as per Acrobat's EULA.If you require more than that, you must use LiveCycle's Reader Extensions module. Simply owning a copy of LC doesn't give you any extra permissions, it's all down to which software product applied the rights.http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/pdfs/Reader_Extension_Policy_A10-5-31-2011.pdf

You can't flatten an XFA file in Acrobat or Reader (Acrobat cannot edit XFA files at all). You can only flatten PDFs (AcroForms), and without jumping through some very complicated hoops involving EchoSign, you can only do it in Acrobat.Preventing someone else from altering a completed form is why digital signatures were invented. There's no other way.You can't force a document to close itself.You can't disable any of the menu items; unless the form has been signed it will always be possible to c...

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[ moved to the LC PDF Generator forum where questions about LC's capabilities will be better answered ]