Acrobat Form in preview instead of opening document

I have created and acrobat fom that is used by our sakes force to brief the design department. The design department like s to just select the form and hit the space bar to preview the form, at a glance, instead of opening the document - the problem is all the check boxes are displayed as checked and the text fields appear empty... thus forcing the designer to open the document where everything is as it should be. My question is can the preview function be reflect the document as it was filled out? i hope i'm making sense here.

Do you understand how "preview" in Windows Explorer or Mac Finder works?
As part of the metatdata of a file, there can be an image of the file in the Jpeg format. This image is created when the file is created but in most cases is updated as changes are made to the file. This lack of processing has lead to some interesting preview image of pictures that have been cropped and assumed to have embarrassing portions removed..
I one wants the preview image to be update, then one needs to create a new image preview jpeg. and replace the jpeg in the metadara for the file.
Metadata includes things like the creation date, modification date, author, document title and other things.
PDFs have their very own unique set of metadata.

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