Creating editable PDF files

I am currently using Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. I am trying to update my PDF file with fill able positions that can be accessed using Adobe Reader. I am using the Text field tool to create the positions. When I run the form with my reader I can enter data into the positions, but when I save the document it does not save the information in just entered? Please help!
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I want to create a SINGLE page pdf file from two or more page size images that are combined to make a single page pdf. Again, this question is on pdfs that are made out of several, atleast two color images and a black-and-white mask for one of them.
I have such pdf files from an unknown source (the producer is edited out) whereby there are three tiff images, obtained using the well known pdfimages extractor.
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Hello Again.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:20 PM, lrosenth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Re: How to create a pdf file from multiple images ?
>
> created by lrosenth in PDF Language and Specifications - View the full
> discussion
> ________________________________
>
> No clue who Irving is…
>
I was hoping to have your first name so its easy for me to address you.
> I have no clue what OS platform, programming language, etc. you use so
> can’t really narrow things down.
I would gladly mention that I am working on windows platform, preferably XP.
I can also work on linux for free products that come with it.
> Also, as this is an Adobe forum, we only
> recommend Adobe products – so there may be other options that even my list
> wouldn’t include.
But adding other products, for the help of an adobe products user,
even if it outside adobe, shall add greater prestige to your company
and give impression of user-centeredness.
> If you read ISO 32000-1:2008 (aka the PDF standard), you will find the
> information about Images and Image Masks well described. I didn’t think I
> needed to repeat any of that information.
Well, just add the few pdf stanzas since you are proficient on it and
I am presently a little rusty as I mentioned. Just asking a little
extra yard, not even to go an extra mile.
> And, if you read that same document, you will see that there is NO SUCH
> THING as a “text only PDF”. All PDF documents are structured binary files.
Well, ascii format or uncompressed format that is human readable. I
know its a binary file, but human readable ascii version of it.
I hope you can give me some stanza and various other approaches
possible so I can select or combine things for myself. I see only a
miniscule number of posts claiming to have written masks in this forum
and then with no details.
Regards
Roger
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I do not get a readable or editable PDF file that has been converted to Microsoft Word.

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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:48:32 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: I do not get a readable or editable PDF file that has been converted to Microsoft Word.
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I'm using oracle aplication server 10g.
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