Doesnt alloe the User to save the form

Dear All,
I have designed a form that upon submittion will call the web service for documentum and generate a flateen version of the PDF. what I need to do is upon submission by the user. the flatten should be generated and close the Adobe reader or Acrobat window without allowing the user to save the form. Because the user filled out the form Adobe keep asking to save changes which allow the user to save the file. Any idea to skip the prompt for saving the file.
Thank you,

OMFH! Thank you so much for the solution I so desperately needed and spent so many hours trying to figure out then so much more time looking for here. How completely unintuitive and frustrating to not be able to create a form in Live Cycle Designer 8 that can be filled out *AND SAVED* from Reader - rather you have to open the finished PDF in Acrobat Pro and use an *advanced* feature to add user rights so the file can be saved from Reader. How difficult would it have been, and how much frustration would it have saved so many end users, for this to have been included as a choice in LCD when creating the form??? After all, it's part of the same software package and probably even the same code base.
Adobe... the new Microsoft.

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