Help with inserting pages into a PDF form

Hi everyone,
I used LiveCycle Designer ES for the first time to make a fillable PDF form.  The form works splendidly, but the users wish to insert PDF pages to the end of the form before submitting (using Acrobat).
I can't figure out how to allow this to happen.
I open the form I made in Acrobat 9.0 and the Insert Pages tab is greyed out.
I went back to LC and set form options to "Allow all changs except extract" and this seems to have done nothing.
When I look at the security settings in Adobe and click on Permissions Details, I see two different things.  In Docmuent Security, the security method is set as Password Security and if I open Show Details It says changing the Document is allowed.
But in the Document Restrictions Summary, changing the Document is set at Not allowed.
Probably a newbie question, but I am stumped.
Thanks,
Becky

Hey there,
If you've created a dynamic form, then the PDF document is no loger an acroform, it's an XFA form. I might be wrong, but I'm fairly certain that XFA forms can't have their pages extracted or have pages added via Acrobat.
If that is the case (I'm fairly certain it is) then you have a few options:
1) Redesign the form in Acrobat, losing the dynamic functionality.
2) Create the form in Livecycle, and include the hidden subform that is shown on submit or button press (this would require you to know what the users want added, it would also require that the thing they're adding is always the same)
3) Install a virtual printer, get them to fill out the dynamic form, then 'print' the via the dynamic printer.
Personally, I'd go with option 3. A virtual printer is a program that prints the current document to a file, instead of an actual printer. 'Cute PDF Writer' is a virtual printer that is able to 'print' any document to a new pdf document. The new form will not be dynamic, and the fields are made read-only (hense why they should fill it out before printing it), but you will be able to insert pages.
If you would like feel free to send me a message with any questions regarding cutepdf writer.
- Scott
P.S. CutePDF Writer also has the advantage of being free, well-supported, and just plain awesome. =P I would suggest getting it, even if you don't need it to resolve this issue. I use it all the time.

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