About Glenn Fraller Expertise Even though I am donating my time to AllEperts.com and I am an Expert, this does NOT mean I know ALL the answers to ALL questions! It seems to me today, people seem to want too much from certain people. I am here because I want to help lead people in a direction I would go. My expertise is limited to Adobe Acrobat 5 (PC) and Acrobat 7 Professional (MAC). If you have version 8 (PC) or (MAC) I, now I am speaking for me only, I would read the help file(s) and research on the Internet every where until I found and understood the solution to my challenge.
Experience Every business day I use Enfocus Pitstop, a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat 5 (PC) and Professional 7 (MAC). Without it, there isn't that much that can be done without the hassel of opening the PDF within Adobe Illustrator. Then there are font issues! Education/Credentials Degreed in Industrial Education and Technology, School of Graphic Communications and work in the prepress field everyday as a toubleshooter.
Expert: Glenn Fraller Date: 4/2/2008 Subject: Acrobat Forms
Question Glenn:
You are the only good quick source for getting information regarding Adobe Acrobat. This is more of an Adobe marketing question than a technical question.
I upgraded from Acrobat 5 Standard to Acrobat 7 Standard. I am attempting to get smart regarding the area of fill-in-the blanks PDF form creation. Acrobat 5 had that capability. But it appears that Acrobat 7 Standard does not. Which means that with the upgrade, that function was lost. Is Adobe playing a shell game, or am I wrong about my assessment of the functional capability of Acrobat 7.
If I am correct, then I am forced to uipgrade again, for a lost function, or perhaps I should uninstall the upgrade and revert back to Acrobat 5.
Hope my question makes sense.
Answer Good Morning Nicholas,
From what I gather electronic form processing (saving/exporting form data) is possible in Acrobat 7 Standard but electronic form design (Creation of Form Fields) is not. I do not own a copy of Standard. Sorry for you! Acrobat 5 look attractive huh?
There is a game that software companies play. like the car companies. And America buys into it. I'm, personally, in the Pre-press Industry, what once was called "typesetting." After years of Adobe hammering on my industry it became the standard. THEN Adobe, secretly, cut a HUGE deal with Fed-X/Kinkos to put a BUTTON in Reader 8 allowing people to submit PDF documents to Kinkos for printing. Needless to say over 60,000 printers across America were astound and dismayed at the total throw away of customer loyalty. So don't feel too bad.
