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: 4/13/2008 Subject: PDF Forms
Question QUESTION: Glenn:
I completed a sample PDF form,as a potential customer, and entered the usual information. Name, address, quantities, etc.
I then sent it to myself (using a "Submit" button) as the protential supplier.
When I received the completed form from the "customer", I, as a supplier, was able to modify all the information that was entered by the customer.
The customer information should be static, once it is sent.
Is there a setting somewhere, that would prohibit modification, once the customer submits the form.
ANSWER: Hello Nicholas,
You want to do a process that sounds simple. However, in today's insecure environment, security is never simple. I receive a number of questions daily about the same process in which you seek. I found a marvelously informative place on the Web for you. I do not have the time to write a PDF JavaScript for you, so I will forward you to this place where you may derive specific information for yourself, since what you seek is custom to your form.
Read all about Digital Signatures. Write me letting me know how you did.
Regards,
Glenn
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QUESTION: Glenn:
My Email address does appear in the addressee field when the Submit button is clicked !!
Regarding the ability to change form data: I will poke at the Standard Security features of Acrobat. Looks like the solution is there.
You are a truly outstanding volunteering expert.
Many thanks and good wishes.
Nicholas M.
Answer Hello Again,
You have to remember that people out there filling in your form will not know how to do anything other than fill in your form and press a button. That tends to tie your hands and leads me to believe a complex Javascript, PHP or sending form data to an Active Server Page (.ASP), or even sending data in (.XML) format maybe the answer. But then again, I, surely do not know all the answers.
