Forms Creation in Acrobat 9

I'm trying to create a form in Acrobat 9. Source document is
a Word doc. I'm getting an error message that Acrobat is unable to
open the document and to check to see if I have read permission.
Yes, I have full permissions on the source doc - in fact I'm
getting this same error message on Word docs that I opened and
turned into forms two days ago.

No techs here. Most of the answers are in the manual.

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Answer requested from adobe techs only - deals with forms creation in Acrobat 9 Pro

Need to accomplish the following steps, and how to do so in Acrobat Pro 9, or if not possible in that program, what program is needed to do so
1, Create a pdf form which can not be modified by viewer
2, Post our website and ask for certain information in answer to questions posted
3. Enable responders to fill in answers by typing on their keyboards and then be able to print their own hard copies if desired
4. Trigger automatic signal to require field entry if respondent fails to complete all required fields before saving
5. Receive responses electronically back to the creator of the forms via an Adobe created data base

No techs here. Most of the answers are in the manual.

Form Creation in Acrobat X Pro - unable to save as Reader Extended PDF

I am using Acrobat X Pro on the Windows 7 OS. I have created a document in Word (Office 2010), saved it as a PDF and added form fields. When I try to Save As Reader Extended PDF, the options are grayed out. How do I create a form from a Word document that allows all end users to be able to type in the fields, use a digital signature, save a copy and print the PDF with the completed fields?

In create the document in MS Word and save the file. Then I select print, and choose Adobe PDF as my printer to save it as a PDF. I then open the PDF file and select Tools, Forms, to create the form and add fields as needed. After I'm finished, I attempt to "Save As" and try to select Reader Enabled PDF, but the options are grayed out and unavailable.
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Acrobat XI - Forms Creation

Hello, Adobe Forum Managers... I watched a video on your site recently that showed the ease of producing forms in the latest version of Acrobat Pro. Will this be taking the place of that function that was debuted in InDesign CS6? I'd heard that InDesign's form production capabilities weren't refined yet and am wondering if Adobe is quickly abandoning that avenue of production for an easier route within Acrobat Pro XI.
Thanks much.

I'm guessing that you're talking about Forms Central for Acrobat, which will be distributed with Acrobat XI. It's a different way of creating forms that are not compatible with Acrobat's existing form methodology. FC has absolutely nothing to do with the InDesign method of creating Acrobat Forms.
The InDesign method works quite well, but doesn't include every little feature that Acrobat has developed over the years. But those issues can easily be tweaked with the forms features in Acrobat Pro. The main thing lacking in the InDesign method is that you still have to open the PDF you create in Acrobat Pro in order to save them as Reader-enabled for saving forms. The biggest advantage is that forms layout can be much more precise, and can include more of the more refined appearance capable in InDesign. (You've never had the tools for creating a refined appearance in Acrobat.) There's no way it will be abandoned. It's one of the most popular features in InDesign CS6!

Form created in Acrobat Pro 8 not editable in Acrobat Pro XI

I created several forms in Acrobat Pro 8, using LiveCycle Designer. I upgraded to Acrobat XI a few days ago when I learned it was unstable under Windows 7. I am now finding I cannot edit my existing forms in Acrobat Pro XI because it doesn't include LiveCycle Designer. This has apparently been moved into a separate product that will cost me another $300. Moreover, I can't seem to save my existing forms at Word documents to re-import them into Acrobat XI, so I can re-create the forms from scratch. I suppose I could print and scan them, but that will result in a less legible form.
This loss of functionality and cross-compatibility between versions is disturbing. I feel I have just paid $200 to get less functionality than I had before.
It also appears that the most expedient method for creating new forms in Acrobat XI is to upload them to FormsCentral. I am reluctant to upload these to a third-party server, and resent being required to do so in order to maintain any functionality.
Is this an ill-planned marketing strategy to get people to buy another software package (which isn't happening in my case), or is there some work-around I am not seeing here?

To create a form in Acrobat, you first create a PDF that you will be adding form fields to. Normally yo'd create the source document in a program like InDesign or Word, convert to PDF, and place the form fields where they need to go. Acrobat includes a Form Wizard that can attempt to add fields where it thinks they should go, but I rarely use it, preverring to add the fields manually. To do this, select: Tools > Forms > Edit
and you'll be switched to form editing mode. At the top you'll see the various form field tools that you can use to add fields to the document. This type of form is known as an Acroform, as opposed to an XFA form (static or dynamic) that LiveCycle Designer creates.
Acrobat 11 comes with the FormCentral form creation application that allows yo to create forms that can be used with the FormsCentral service. It allows you to export a form to PDF, which can be further edited in Acrobat. FormsCentral can also work with a PDF form (Acroform) that you create entirely in Acrobat.
I think an Acroform is the more versatile type of the three mentioned since they have the widest support in the PDF viewers that are out there, but which you choose depends on your needs. Each have their advantages.

Form templates for Acrobat 9 Pro on Mac?

H! I've had absolutely no luck finding this via Google, Adobe, searches, etc. Hoping someone can shed some light here.
We have several computers in our office running Windows and Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. These computers can create new Acrobat forms based on pre-made templates that were included in the software package. When making a form using the templates, it opens up a program named "Designer" or something similar.
I'm personally running a Mac on Snow Leopard and I have the Acrobat 9 Pro version installed. I don't have an option to create a form using a template - only a pre-existing PDF or another type of file (or, of course, from a scanned page).
In the Adobe TV tutorial on Acrobat Forms, the narrator mentions that Mac versions don't have a certain feature in their form creation wizard. I'm worried that, although Acrobat 9 is advertised as having a library of template form files, I can't use any of them because of my computer and OS.
Any ideas or resources where I can get a definitive answer or workaround?
Really appreciate the help!
L

lesliemccoy wrote:
Any ideas or resources where I can get a definitive answer or workaround?
L
You can get a definitive answer right here.
LiveCycle Form Designer (what the folks with Windows use) is not available for the Mac OS.

Automating Form Creation

I have to create a set of application forms using Acrobat. My problem is that there are 12 x 6 x 5 variants, so would rather not create 360 individual forms.
At the moment the workflow is as follows:
Choose 1 of 12 Products
Open 1 of 6 applicable app form templates (inDesign)
Replace product name into [Product Name] placeholder (inDesign)
Save a PDF down of each of the 5 serial codes for each template for each product.
A simplified example:
Product1_Template1_001.pdf
Product1_Template1_002.pdf
Product1_Template1_003.pdf
Product1_Template2_001.pdf
Product1_Template2_002.pdf
Product1_Template2_003.pdf
Product1_Template3_001.pdf
Product1_Template3_002.pdf
Product1_Template3_003.pdf
Product2_Template1_001.pdf
Product2_Template1_002.pdf
Product2_Template1_003.pdf
Product2_Template2_001.pdf
Product2_Template2_002.pdf
Product2_Template2_003.pdf
Product2_Template3_001.pdf
Product2_Template3_002.pdf
Product2_Template3_003.pdf
Ad nauseum....
For each of these 360 pdfs, run app form wizard and save down (Acrobat Professional)
As you can imagine the job is complex, and I would love a way of performing some sort of automation of the actual app form creation.
A few notes (the serial codes are just a way for our client to track where the pdf originated from: i.e. tracking) If there is a different/easier way of doing this i'm all ears.
Really if anyone knows of any ways of speeding up this process in any way, i'm all ears. Thanks.

Yes, after you create the fields, you can replace the pages with pages from a different PDF and any fields will be retained. This process can be automated with the doc.replacePages JavaScript method: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.522.html

Problem with Buttons/Form Fields in Acrobat PDF when created in InDesign CS4

So I have been working for quite some time on an interactive form for an internal client at my job. It has two major components, one is the side bar navigation, which I created using buttons in InDesign which link to bookmarks in the document. The second aspect is that I also created "check boxes" accoring to this video: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/cs4/articles/lrvid4434_ds.html
I have two major issues:
1. Whenever I try to convert my boxes to form fields in Acrobat it will not recognize them unless I save out 4 pages at a time (rather than the whole document).
2. I then have to combine the document and get multiple sets of bookmarks, and some bookamrks are corrupted (not working properly). Even when I try to convert the whole document some of the buttons are corrupted.
UGH tired of this project, I am really bastardizing the whole thing to get it done, but want to figure out the problem as this is an ongoing document that we will be using over and over again in future years.
I am attaching the pdf file--this is a pieced together one (saved out 4 pages at a time) (which I did do some fixes to to get buttons to go to proper locations) and the original indesign file (partial file due to size).
PLEASE OH PLEASE HELP ME!

Acrobat's Form Wizard is good but not perfect when creating form data from a PDF. I have never encountered Acrobat not able to finish the process of creating all form fields, but have encountered very slugish performance afterwards when there was a lot of forms, buttons, and other elements within the pages. And I would say, from your attached PDF, it is pretty heavy with content. I am going to suggest an idea, but I have not tested this to see if it would work.
In InDesign, create a layer for your navigation tabs, and a layer for your text with the check boxes. Create two PDFs from ID, one PDF with just your-nav tabs, the second with just your text with check boxes. In Acrobat, perform the Form Wizard on the second PDF and see if this will finish, the idea here is to reduce the cllutter for the Form Wizard to finish. If it does, you can merge the first PDF as a layer with the second to have a completed document. Again, I have not tested this theory.

How do I add a functional "submit button" to a pdf form in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI ? I created the pdf form in Adobe Forms Central.

How do I add a functional "submit button" to a pdf form in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI ? I created the pdf form in Adobe Forms Central. It's for an online Diet Questionnaire. After people complete the form I'd like them to click "SUBMIT" and the completed form will be emailed to me.

This can be a bit confusing because Acrobat 11 comes with the desktop app that allows you to create simple PDF forms without having a FormsCentral account. Some people find this helpful, but you need to understand that when you generate the PDF form, it is Reader-enabled by Acrobat. In order to edit the form further in Acrobat, you have to create a non-enabled copy of the form. You do this in Acrobat by opening the form and selecting: File > Save a Copy
and opening the copy. It is not opened automatically.
You can now add a button and set it up to submit by email, either using a "Submit a form" action or the submitForm JavaScript method. You can set it up to include just the form data or the entire PDF, and will want to use a mailto type URL. Submitting the form to the FormsCentral server has a number of important advantages over email (much more reliable, more secure, etc.), so you might want to consider it.
If the form needs to be saved with Reader versions prior to 11, then you will need to Reader-enable the document. In Acrobat 11 you do this by selecting: File > Save As Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable More Tools

Form Creation for Service Order

Hi
I am new to CRM Mobile, although I have worked in CRM for couple of years now.
In our project there is requirement to print forms (attached to Service Order) from Laptop whenever company representative meets customer. For this CRM Mobile is being used.
Now related to this I have few questions:
1) Form Creation: In CRM online system we can create form in SMARTFORMS. Do we use the same tool for form creation? Where is it created and how is it downloaded to Laptops ? (I believe to a transaction type we assign action profile which calls this form. This is brought into system using normal synchronization)
2) Which Database tables does it refer to, normal CRM application tables or SMO tables.
Please help me in this.
Thanx & Regards
Hits

Hi,
the kind of Mobile applications we are talking about here is only running on laptops or tablet PCs, not on handhelds. So normally the users have an additional portable printer with them when being in the field.
Another thing: For the document generation there are two possibilities, MS word or crystal reports. Both have advantages and disadvantages which need to be analysed for the project.
Regards,
Wolfhard

Issue with Submit a form in Adobe Acrobat pro XI

I have created a form in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI and am using a submit form button. I want the body of the email to display a html version of the PDF, however, instead it attaches the file as a *.tmp file and does not show up in the body. What am I am missing? (also, outlook blocked access to the file and claimed it to be a potentially unsafe attachment, but trying with other e-mail editors i still had no luck)
Also, is there a way to do this in javascript? if so, how?
(I would like to know how to do it with and without javascript if available - im learning)

not really, someone else mentioned that it could be done and they said they saw it before. I've been beating myself up for a while trying to figure out how to get it to happen. Is there an easy way to get the content of the pdf form into an email body with plain text when pressing a submit by email button?
Such as...
<label name>: <txtfield content>
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Created a Form in Adobe Acrobat XI and save that form as "Standard" PDF

I created a Form with Adobe Acrobat XI and now I want to add a button for save that form as "Standard" PDF with Java Script or other suitable way. Please help me.
Thank You.

Forms are entirely standard. What do you mean by "standard" in this case. Do you mean "not a form, so that the bits filled in are just permanent parts of the PDF like the other stuff"?

Cannot create a Response File in Reader X from form created in Acrobat Pro 9

I created a form in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9. I distributed the form using option "Manually collect responses in my email inbox" and "Save a local copy and manually send it later". When I send that form and get a response, I open it in Adobe Reader X but I do not get the pop-up option to save to a Response File. I do get that option to save to the response file if I open the file with Adobe Reader 9. Has anyone else seen this problem and is there a solution?

I figured a way around this in case anyone has the same problem in the future. I just opened Acrobat Pro X, clicked combine files into PDF, selected the file I wanted, saved the "binder" as PDF then saved another version as Reader Extended PDF. I think this helped because it essentially creaded a whole new PDF with the old PDF in it and getting rid of whater hashes or document properties in the last one that wouldn't allow it to work in Reader. Opens perfectly on other computers.

Fatal error distributing forms with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

Fatal error distributing forms with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro.
I click
"Adobe Acrobat Pro/Formularer/Distribuer formularer/"
("Adobe Acrobat Pro/Forms/Distribute forms/")
and chose a form for distribution and in the picture "Distribute Form" chose
"Automatically download & organize responsees with Acrobat.com".
I then click "Next" and write an email-address to send it to (i.g. to my own)
and then click "Send".
The program quickly writes
"Authenticating email-addresses"
and then gives the following error message
"Borland Database er ikke installeret. Kan ikke indlæse tjenesteudbyder af Corel-adressekartotetek."
("Borland Database is not installed. Can not read load service provider of Corel address directory.")
When I clik "OK" I get the error message
"Adobe Acrobat has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
I have undeleted and reinstalled Adobe Acrobat many times without any effect.
The same procedure has been tried on another computer without any problem.
What is my problem and how do I resolve it ?
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Has worked may times before
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No recent system hardware or software change

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Why can't I create Fillable PDF Forms using Adobe Acrobat X Pro and upload to Dreamweaver?

I can create fillable PDF Forms using Adobe Acrobat X Pro. I can email them to someone using Adobe Reader (free) and they can fill them, save and email to me. But when I upload the form to Dreamweaver CS5, the form is not fillable. And yes, I saved it as a Reader Extended PDF-Enable Additional Features.

I see no reason for this form to fail in Reader. Some questions for you.
1. On the system with Adobe Reader, what is the system and the version of Adobe Reader?
2. Are you viewing the PDF in a browser on the system with Reader, or in an Adobe Reader window?
3. If it's a browser
(a) what is the browser
(b) if you download the file instead, and open directly in Reader, what happens?

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