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#1 2009-08-18 10:37 am
- chsoundman
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User editable forms in Acrobat........that can be saved in Reader?
Howdy Y'all
I have a client that needs a contract made up that can be emailed to clients for them to "fill in" and able to be saved to send back with all of the fields filled out. The original document was made in Word and I just exported it to a PDF and created the forms for user editing. Unfortunately, I was unaware that Reader versions of Acrobat were unable to save the docs (I'm kind of sheltered in that I have only used retail versions of Acrobat 
). We were hoping to use Acrobat since it's pretty much universal and the Reader is free.
Does anyone know of a way to create forms in Acrobat (vers. 8 Pro) that can be "edited" or have info input by another user with Acrobat READER and save them so it can be sent back? I already know how to create the form fields......I'm just curious if there is a way to FORMAT these fields or the document itself so that whatever is input into these fields can be saved on the client's end so it can be sent back.
The only other option is to send the Word docs that were originally made up but I'm afraid we would run into issues of clients not having Word to open the documents up.
Any suggestions?
TIA 
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#2 2009-08-18 10:43 am
- sturner
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Re: User editable forms in Acrobat........that can be saved in Reader?
If they are using a current version of Reader, yes.
There are several options, one of which is form emailing which will result in a file of the data they input.
This is beyond my expertise, but I know it can be done. I've done review edits in Reader, but that produces a different result from what you are looking for. I recommend that you go to the Adobe forums for more authoritative information.
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#3 2009-08-19 3:53 pm
- Mr. Happypants
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Re: User editable forms in Acrobat........that can be saved in Reader?
I think you can go to Advanced -> Enable Usage Rights In Acrobat Reader and that will do what you want. Make a COPY first, and pay attention to the warning, it may disable certain features for editing it you re-open it in Acrobat Pro. Like, all of your fancy form fields may disappear!
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