Do I need Pro to fill out and save forms?

I created a form for my business using Pro-9. What version is required for the end user to open this form, fill out the fields, and save the filled out form?

You might want to look at the FAQs at the top of this forum.
A lot will depend upon your users and the product and version that they have. Your users should be using Reader version 7 or better and you should enable Extended Reader Rights.

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Is there a way to create a PDF form that ANYONE can fill out and SAVE with their content? By anyone, I mean someone who can download and use the free Adobe Reader, on either a Mac or PC. I have Acrobat Pro, and would like to be able to create forms that can not only be filled out and printed, but saved and emailed, which is not an option with the forms I have created to date. They can be filled out, but not saved, with Adobe Reader.
TIA,
Nancy

To do what Dave indicated you need to do, it depends on what version of Acrobat you have:
Acrobat 8: Advanced > Enable Usage Rights in Adobe Reader
Acrobat 9: Advanced > Extend Features in Adobe Reader
Acrobat 10: File > Save As > Reader Extended PDF > Enable Additional Features
Acrobat 11: File > Save as Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable More Tools (includes form fill-in & save)
I wonder what it will be next time?

Need to create form that user can fill out and SAVE in Reader

Hi,
My form, which of course works fine in Adobe Acrobat 4 CS4, is unsaveable when typed into with Acrobat Reader. It says at the top:
"Please fill out the following form. You cannot save data typed into this form. Please print your completed form if you would like a copy for your records."
*I know it's possible* to make it writable/saveable for Readers users, because I have here a form that someone else created, and in Reader the message says, "Please fill out the following form. You can save data typed into this form."
What setting do I need to change in Acrobat to make it saveable in Reader? Document attached.
Thank you in advance!!!!

WelltechSolutions wrote:
Phillip,
Thank you for the clarification.
I cannot seem to find the post that mentioned that this could not be done; perhaps it was for an older version of Acrobat. If I find it, I'll send you the URL.
This is a form that will reside on a web site for download, and the forms are used by individuals to track exercise as part of a community nonprofit wellness program. I doubt 500 folks will use it. We can monitor downloads.
If we need to go above 500 downloads, how would we go about purchasing a license for additional use? And, is there a chance that Adobe will increase this limit for a purpose that is non-commercial and non-profit?
Thanks.
I don't know the answers to the question about license for additional use, nor would Adobe increase the limit. I among other that were associated with Non-profits (I was treasury for an Electronics Association for 17 years) were the reason for adobe doing this to begin with. Before Acrobat 8, you had to use the other methods mentioned (The LiveCycle Server).

Saving filled out for saves ip address causing problems

I have an application that users use from within the company network and from outside. A web page opens an adobe form that the users fill out and save back to the server, in the form of an FDF. Some change in Adobe versions has started to save the ip address of the template file within the fdf. This is now causing the problem that people inside the company network who want to open to view the document can't see a document created from outside because it is looking for the template at the wrong ip address, and people outside can't see documents created by people inside. Is there any solution to this problem? I tried writing a program to change the ip address but I just get damaged files.
Thanks for your help.

I have an vbscript asp page that opens the form within the web application with Adobe Reader plug in, filling out parts of the form with data from a database. I use the following code to create the form:
i dim FdfAcX
i Set FdfAcX = Server.CreateObject("FdfApp.FdfApp")
i Set outputFDF = FdfAcX.FDFCreate
i outputFDF.FDFSetValue "somefield", somevalue, False
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i Set FDFin = FdfAcx.FDFOpenFromBuf (Request.BinaryRead(Request.TotalBytes))
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i FDFin.FDFSetFile form_name & ".FDF"
i FDFin.FDFSaveToFile reportSavedFolder & file_name
i FDFin.FDFClose
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/F (PW3N2008.FDF)>> >> endobjtrailer<</Root 1 0 R >>%%EOF
the 10.10.0.8 is causing a problem -- people on the outside trying to open this form to view get an error. When people on the outside create the form, a different ip address is saved there and people on the inside can't open it.
I dont know how to set it up so that the F key is not included, but I'm also not sure that would work -- what I really want is not to have the ip address in there. If I did not point to the pdf, would it look anything like the original pdf? Is there a way to use relative addressing of the path and not have the ip address?
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What file format did you export it to?

I have Adobe Pro online monthly subscription. I need to know how to fill in and sign forms already downloaded as PDF's

I have Adobe Pro online monthly subscription. I need to know how to fill in and sign forms already downloaded as PDF's

Hi Schoolcoach1,
Please see the following Help documents:
Acrobat Help | Filling in PDF forms
Acrobat Help | Signing PDFs with Adobe EchoSign Electronic Signature
Please let us know if you have additional questions.
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How to create a PDF form which can be filled out and saved with change by end user

I am using Acrobat 8.0 - Mac - and want to create a PDF with text form fields. Simple one page file. The end user needs to be able to fill out the text form fields and SAVE those changes. so far they can fill out the fields but can not save the file with changes.
Thanks

Sandee Cohen wrote:
Phillip Jones said:
After the uproar from Users about Standard being little more than Apple's Print to PDF; there hasn't been a Standard version for Mac since version 6. So many people were use the features in Acrobat 5 to create Forms that could be filled out by Reader. when the bought 6 Standard they were ready to hang the CEO of Adobe in effigy. When 7 came out is was Pro only.
I'm confused.
The current version of Acrobat comes in Standard, Pro, and Extended Pro versions. Only the Pro version is on the Mac. But that doesn't mean that the Mac community wouldn't have wanted the Standard version of Acrobat.
The Standard version is hardly a mimic of Apple's Save to PDF. The most important features of Standard is to enable Rights in Reader as well as add comments, form fields. etc.
The only thing that Standard does do are the pre-press and production features of Pro.
However, given the difference in price ($450 vs. $300) there is ample reason for business on the Mac OS to buy Standard--if they could buy it.
I didn't say PC users.
I should have said Mac users. Because the Print system and sytem by which Mac users view anything is based on the PDF engine. The Mac sytem can do anything Standard Standrd could do. although in order to placate Adobe the pdf engine used is a version or two behind. If the Mac OS could do everything Acrobat could do there would be no reason for Adobe to provide Acrobat Or Reader for Mac.
And you basing your assumption of what Standard can do a PC. Standard on Mac is basically Mac's Print to PDF wrapped in an Adobe Package. It shad no ability to confer rights to reader (that didn't come to Acrobat Mac until Version 8) and was unable to to create forms. The current version of Acrobat PC comes as Standard, Pro, And extended. There never has and never will be an extended pro version for Mac (that adds the ability to create XML based forms) They don't have the interest. To adobe is little more than a Play toy. Because Windows has so much clout They can dictate what they want. Apple not so much. One advantage Mac does have is that Forms creator is built in. on PC its an adon (it free but an addon or was).
Now back in OS 9 days and Acrobat 5.x Acrobat for Mac and PC were equal. except to have the print press features Mac users had to pay an addition $200.00. (It exactly as you described in your last sentence - except Acrobat 5.x without the printpress and The Acrobat 5 without Print press was $299.00 and $499.00 with Print press.) I know I've used Acrobat since version 3.

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I know you can integrate an external form with an Eloqua form (which will then create the Eloqua cookie automatically) but because this is a login form for our website, we don't want to send secure information (such as passwords) over to Eloqua.
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How Do I Add A PDF That Can Be Filled Out And Submitted To My Email

I just finished converting an application to PDF using the forms wizard. This works really well as it makes it so they can only fill in the required information and not alter any of the other form. Right now I just have it posted as a downloadable file that they can save fill out and email back in. However what I'm wanting to do is have it where they can just open the PDF in another tab, fill it out and hit submit and have that automatically sent to my email account. What I've done is use:
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I'm trying to create a document for pricing quotes.
The idea is that I (designer) create a document (writable) for a client to fill out, save (unwritable), and send to customers for price quotes.
I've tried:
creating text boxes - but when the document is filled out and saved, the client is still invited to change the fields (we don't want that!)
creating signature boxes - which pulls up a lengthy and complicated signature field
signing the document with multiple signatures - a hassle I wouldn't wish on a client
going to the "sign" field of Adobe Reader, clicking "Add Text," and saving the document. - The save option still leaves the text editable upon reopening; the email option requires an echo account, which we're not looking for because we aren't actually creating legal documents.
Any advice? I could really use it!George Johnson was helping before, when I hijacked Island Lady's thread (eep! sorry about that!)
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A sample of the document is HERE

Here are the preliminary instructions I'm sending to my client:
Open the Document in Acrobat Reader 11.0.07
Click on “Sign.”
Click on “Place Signature” -or- if you’ve already done this once, click on the corresponding arrow, then click on “Change Saved Signature”
Select “Type my signature”
Type the word/s you would like to type in the “Enter Your Name” field (never mind that it’s not your name )
Click “Accept”
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Rename your document so that a copy is saved for you to email to the customer.
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Can I make a form that could be emailed filled out and returned

I'd like to create a form that I can email my students and that they could fill out and return.
Is there a site or video that could help me learn this?
Perhaps create a template?

Not in Pages, except to create the basic form itself.
The best method is create a pdf form, using Acrobat Pro to fill in the data fields of the form.
The students can use the free Acrobat Reader to fill in the fields, which you can have sent electronically back to you or whatever database you want, or as a simple dumb form that accepts their typing.
To have a quiz style multiple choice document, that even corrects and sums up results use iBooks [free], very similar to Pages, or a dedicated application for this style of work.
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I am trying to do a meal order form to email to my customers for them to fill out and submit. Do my customers need Adobe to fill out form?

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I am using Adobe Reader X on a laptop with Windows Vista OS and Adobe Reader XI on an older laptop with Windows XP OS. While filling out the same form on each computer, I have found that I can save info on the older laptop, but not on the newer one. Thi

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Software/app required on phone devices to fill out, sign, save and email.

New user. Set up my first form and emailed from mac to laptop and worked great. Tried to fill our form on my iPhone and galaxy and can't edit. What software/app is required on user devices to fill out, sign, save and email? Thx

The built-in PDF viewer on iOS does not support forms. Adobe Reader on iOS has some support and should work for what you want, but you may need to use the built-in methods for signing and emailing. Readdle's PDF Expert has better support, including more support for JavaScript. Neither support digital signatures, but both support a hand-drawn signature.
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