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: 4/29/2008 Subject: PDF Form creation
Question Hi
I created a PDF form using Adobe Acrobat professional 8. Then I published it and it generated 3 forms. Now I am unable to fill form and save data using Adobe reader 6 - 7 and 8, presently it is only saving data using 8.
Please guide me.
Best Regards
Answer On Second Thought!
OK Hina, Here's The Scoop!
Acrobat only allows "Enable for Commenting and Analysis in Adobe Reader" not filling form fields. In order to "Extend User Rights in Reader" get your checkbook out!. . . below . . . as I said earlier Adobe knows what they are doing and is very complex and may require purchase of additional software. Namely Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions ES.
If you want to create a PDF document that gives Adobe Reader (free) users some of the tools and features that are normally available only in Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Professional (expensive), get your checkbook out, because you need to include additional usage rights. These additional usage rights can give users the necessary tools to fill in forms and submit them online or offline, to participate in email and web-based reviews, to add comments, and to sign documents using Adobe Reader. All these rights are document specific and not global. To add these additional usage rights, you use a server (hardware very expensive!) extension. For more information on additional usage rights and system requirements, see the Adobe website at:
