PDF Form to PDF document

Hello.
Is it possible to convert a PDF Form to a PDF document?
I created PDF Form using Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 and put it on the website so our users can fill in over the Internet.
Thanks to Ulf I Anderssons sample code, I was able to use ASP.NET page to extract form field values and store them into our SQL database.
We know how to recreate the PDF Form with the data filled in, but the final product should be a PDF document so all the fields must be non-editable. And we are using Acrobat Professional 8.1.
I guess we can lock the form fields, but we should be able to programmatically save as a PDF document, right..?

ExportPDF is not, in my opinion, the least bit suitable for forms. Forms need to stay as PDFs.

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Brian,
PDF Files made with Acrobat are based on postscript.
PDF Files made with LiveCycle Designer are based on XML and are essentially wrapped in a PDF. Once modified in LiveCycle Designer, you can no longer edit the file directly in Acrobat.
They do not share the same base file type and can not be combined into a single PDF using Acrobat version 7.
One of the new features of Acrobat version 8 - is called packages. Packages allow you to combine files of different types (acrobat and designer) as well as documents with different security settings (also not previously allowed). Each file in the package maintains it's independent identity and settings, wrapped in a new pdf file.
Recommended solution: Upgrade to Acrobat 8 Professional, get the new version of designer, and the ability to use packages.
Hope this helps.
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I'd suggested flattening the form fields, which converts them to regular page contents. There won't be any interactive fields after you do this though. It is possible to flattten just certain fields so that your script would still work if the form is viewed in a compatible PDF viewer, but this would require a custom script.
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Hi Diego237,
If I understand you correctly you have a fillable PDF form that you fill with some report information, then you send that PDF form to customers via email, but you don’t want them to be able to altering it.
You may use Adobe Acrobat to set/change restrictions for your PDF document – to specify what your customers could do with the document. For that just execute the following steps:
1. Open your already filled PDF form document in Acrobat
2. Chose File> Properties, select Security tab in Document Properties dialog.
3. Choose Password Security in Security Method popup menu – it opens “Password Security – Settings” dialog. In Permissions area Select check-box “Restrict editing and printing of the document.
4. In “Printing Allowed” drop down menu specify allowed printing options
5. In “Changes Allowed” drop down menu specify “None” or otherwise whatever you want your customers be able to do with your PDF form.
6. You need to provide password (for you to remember so that only you will be able to change that document again when needed),
7. You need to Save that document for your new restricted permissions to take effect. Then close and reopen the document – and verify permissions in Security tab of the Document Properties dialog. And if that’s what you intended – you could email that PDF document to your customers
Now if you don’t have Adobe Acrobat yet but only free Reader, you would need to download a free trial version of Acrobat XI Pro from here.
And if that solution is working for you, please check out Adobe Acrobat Plus pages:
https://www.stage.acrobat.com/acrobatplus/en/home.html
on how you could upgrade your CreatePDF subscription to Acrobat Plus subscription to allow you full right to download and use Acrobat XI Pro desktop application on your computer further on.
Regards,
Rufina
Member of Adobe CreatePDF Team

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All Products are up to date with the latest verison to each.
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Hi,
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SQL> create table table1(id number,val varchar2(10));
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SQL> create table table2(id number,val varchar2(10));
Table created.
SQL> insert all
2 into table1 values(id,val)
3 into table2 values(id2,val2)
4 select extractValue(x.col,'/a/id1') id
5        ,extractValue(x.col,'/a/value') val
6        ,extractValue(x.col,'/a/value2') val2
7        ,extractValue(x.col,'/a/id2') id2
8 from (select xmltype('<a><id1>1</id1><value>a</value><id2>2</id2><value2>b</value2></a>') col from dual) x;
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         1 a
SQL> select * from table2;
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