Fillable forms blank after emailing

I am using an old version of Acrobat- Acrobat9 Pro. I have created a number of fillable forms to streamline the admin part of a project I am doing. The forms work fine to complete and save. But when I email them to someone, more than half the time they come through as blank. Any idea about how to fix this?

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Short story: There is a limit to how many people can fill them out before Adobe has their attorney's contact you.

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I have created a fillable PDF form but when I send it as an attachment and open it on my iPhone I cant see the content that I entered into the text boxes.
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I have created a fillable form using Adobe Acrobat X Pro (I uploaded a form created in Word 2010, and modified it slightly using Adobe X), but users I send the form to are unable to save their entries.How do I allow users to save the information they have entered in the fillable form?
Do recipients of the form have to have a specific version of Adobe in order to save their entries in the fillable form I created using Acrobat X Pro?
Any help would be much appreciated!

Ok! I think I've got the hang of how to edit and distribute the form. I see that Adobe records user responses, is there some way to block this feature?
For my purposes, I really just need to send the fillable form as an email attachment to users, have the users enter and save their responses into the form, and then have them send the modified form back to me as an email attachment.

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Ok! I think I've got the hang of how to edit and distribute the form. I see that Adobe records user responses, is there some way to block this feature?
For my purposes, I really just need to send the fillable form as an email attachment to users, have the users enter and save their responses into the form, and then have them send the modified form back to me as an email attachment.

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Hello,
I created a fillable form from scratch in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended version 9.3.2, using Adobe Livecycle Designer ES version 8.2.1. I'm on Windows XP. When I first created the form I saved it on the company server, but, I can't remember why, I had to save it on the desktop in order to distribute it (I'm not sure if this detail is important for the issue).
I sent the blank fillable form via email as an attachment to about 50 people (not in my organization) with the filename application_distributed.pdf. Knowing the population that received it, I would say that the majority of them filled it out in Adobe Reader. I asked them to fill it out, save it with a different name, and send it back to me.
Out of the 50 forms I got back, 40 came through fine, while the other 10 came back completely blank. 6 of these 10 people used a Mac computer (some of them said they were using "Preview", a Mac version of Adobe, according to them), a couple of them used a pc, and I wasn't able to find out about the other 2.
I sent the same form twice to a colleague who has both a pc and a Mac at home, and asked her to fill out the first one on her pc, and the 2nd one on her Mac, and to send them back to me in two separate emails. They both came back to me filled out perfectly.
I have been scratching my head trying to figure out what the common denominator is amongst the 10 people whose form came back blank... At the beginning, after I discovered that the first 3 people were Mac users, I thought maybe it was an operating system incompatibility issue, but when I started getting blank forms from pc users, I got more puzzled.
I was on the phone with Adobe Technical Support for a couple of hours on 5/18/2010, and they asked me to submit the form to them so they could look into it since they couldn't solve the problem by phone, but so far, 3 weeks later, I have not heard back from them.
Today I finally decided to go on this forum and ask for help. If anybody has any idea about what the issue might be and how to solve it, I would be eternally grateful.
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That should work yes. Not to say that there isn't anything else that will cause this but it's the typical reason why it happens.
It shouldn't cause any conflicts in a Mac. At worst, Reader may want to open PDF's by default but they can easily switch that back by highlighting a PDF, choosing File>Get Info>Open with, choosing Preview and clicking "Change all". When I installed Reader, Mac Preview remained the default Reader until I told it to use Reader.
Mac and Windows users can get the reader at http://get.adobe.com/reader/?promoid=BUIGO. It will detect their OS and give them the correct download.
One thing, if they decide to keep Preview as their default PDF Reader then they will have to actually open Reader and use File>Open to open PDF's in Reader.

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I need to create a PDF fillable form that will send a filled pdf
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The ones we have tried so far send an xml version of the form instead
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Also, is it possible to leave the email recipient empty to allow the
form to be sent to different people each time it's filled?
I am using Adobe Acrobat Professional CS3.
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Hi,
I am using Acrobat Pro 9 to create a fillable form and the users of this form will have Acrobat Reader 9 or earlier.
Is there a way to email a completed, fillable pdf so the recipient of the email will receive the completed form but the sender does not have to save the form prior to sending?
I've created this fillable form on a shared network drive for our staff to complete when they want to request time off from work. In order to avoid using paper, I want them to fill out this form electronically and email it to their supervisor but I don't want them to be able to save the filled out form. I tested the form and when I fill it out and send it to myself, it comes back as blank...unless I save a copy of it which I don't want to do.
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Thanks for the response Bill. The form was created using Acrobat Pro 9.
I understand the concept of having to save the form but not the data however most of my staff are not very computer literate and I need to keep it as simple as possible:
1. Open the form, fill it out and hit Send.
2. Recipient opens the email, clicks the attachment and reads the form.
I don't mind setting things up and doing the hard work but if the users have to do anything other than 1 and 2, then its not worth setting up.
I guess the main issue with staff keeping a copy of the form is that they can then go back, change something on the form (ie, the date they want time off from work) and then resend the form. Sounds childish but you don't know the people I work with. lol
Maybe I should ask: is there a way to automatically generate a date stamp on a document once it is saved and it can't be deleted or altered? If a completed form is sent to the supervisor and the date stamp is before the current date, the supervisor will know that the form was altered.
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If I open your Form with Reader XI, modify it, then close it, I am prompted to Save. If I select “Don’t Save”, then, of course, the modification is not saved. If I select “Save”, the modification is saved. So it does not appear that any logic has been embedded into the form that clears the modifications prior to Save. Its possible that older versions of Reader do not permit Save, however, a user using the current version of Reader: Reader XI would need to be trained to select the “Don’t Save” button for your workflow to be valid.
With the Mobile Reader, save is implicit. So there is no prompt to Save on close. The modifications are saved automatically.
If you want to start with a reset form each time it is opened, there are a couple alternatives:
Users can duplicate the unfilled form and work with the duplicate each time, thereby leaving the original in its unfilled state.
You can embed some instructions into the form that clear its contents on form open. Note that with this option, the prior content (pre-clear) will still be in the file even though it is not presented to the user. This would be a problem if multiple users were using the same device and the form content were sensitive.
I’ve sent you a version of your form with option 2. implemented that you can try.
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After most recent Reader update can't save fillable forms.

After the most recent Adobe Reader XI update, we can no longer save PDFs with fillable forms on the first save attempt. A little background for you. We have forms that we periodically need to change the information in. My users came to me with this issue, when I tried it, I could save. Naturally I thought it was a rights issue since I am an admin, but I checked for Reader updates first to make sure I was on the same version. There were updates for mine, after installing them I have the same issue now. When I change the data in a fillable form, the first attempt to save I am told that it can't be saved and I will need to use a different filename or location. I click OK, after clicking OK my document name in the title bar canges from whatever.pdf to something random.tmp. Now, since it is technically a different document open I can save it to the file I want it to be. Is there a new option or function causing this? This has never been an issue in the past with these PDFs.

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Documents open in reader XI, then go blank after 8 seconds. whether in IE 11, desktop file, or email. This happens at home or at work. I would expect that this is a common problem with a simple (to other eyes) answer

Mystery solved.
My .pdf files had been defaulting to Acrobat to open. I just designated Reader as the default for opening .pdf, and am now able to open those files normally.
Apparently, I installed Acrobat but had not yet confirmed my subscription. The installation automatically made Acrobat the default for opening .pdf files, then wouldn't allow documents to be displayed for more than a few seconds before closing itself. I assume that will no longer be the case once the bill is paid.
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That should work yes. Not to say that there isn't anything else that will cause this but it's the typical reason why it happens.
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