Making a PDF Form Fillable & Saveable

I have a form that I need to have made fillable and be able to save the form. I have the form on my computer and it was created with Acrobat. However, I am not able to save the form with the information I type into fields. I need to correct this.

Hi vinceparham
Please See the below Links for all the details :
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7e0d.w .html
Create Fillable Forms : http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/create-fillable-pdf-forms-acrobat.html

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If someone knows please let me know the solution.
Rgrds.
Edited by: Deepa K on Feb 20, 2008 11:10 AM

hi,
if u give as fp_docparams-FILLABLE = 'N' u will be able to fill the form.. but u cannot save that pdf with those filled data,, so that u should give as N when u call the function module..
And to set it as X it need the credential file should be installed..and u will be able to edit and save the file..
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