Quick Tip: How to save PDF forms in Adobe Reader X | Acrobat X Tips & Tricks | Adobe TV

This quick tip looks at the differences between a basic PDF form and a Reader-enabled PDF form and how to save either PDF form using Acrobat Reader X.
http://adobe.ly/GJzFxV

You have not explained how to change the document into an "_distributed.pdf that has the ability to be saved. That was the least helpful video that I have ever seen

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How to save Pdf form localy without internet?
I thought in the beginning about advanced user rights and pure saving them on adobe reader but i saw legal notes about 500 user who can legaly save it localy and answer to me (bu they can`t answer to my client who paid me for doing this form).
Other thing is to do Air Application which would collect data from Pdf Form and save it (localy without internet) to use it later.
I thought about that second possibility but i can`t find any clue to do it myself.
Any help will be appreciated...

Hi,
Are you downloading responses as PDF forms after forms are submitted? If so, FormsCentral doesn't provide an option to exclude empty fields and you won't be able to save PDF forms without empty fields.
You can use this form to "vote" on popular feature requests, or to add a new one of your own:
https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=XnF-KJVCovcEVQz9tZHYPQ
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Wenlan

How to save PDF form without empty fields ?

Hello,
I try to find how to save PDF forms after a school registration but without empty fields because i have lots of relation in my Form but i haven't.
Is it possible and how ?
Thanks

Hi,
Are you downloading responses as PDF forms after forms are submitted? If so, FormsCentral doesn't provide an option to exclude empty fields and you won't be able to save PDF forms without empty fields.
You can use this form to "vote" on popular feature requests, or to add a new one of your own:
https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=XnF-KJVCovcEVQz9tZHYPQ
Thanks,
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HOW TO save PDF Forms in Acrobat Reader

Hi,
I have made a timesheet form in Acrobat Professional. The idea with this is to put it on our intranet site and let my collegues register their working hours there (today we have an excel form).
The big advantage in using the PDF Form instead of the excel is the digital signatures function. This makes it possible for signing also when not in house - perfect in every aspect but....
...my collegues would like to save the timesheet before sending it. Printing is of no option since they are out on the road most of the time.
In Adobe Professional this is no problem but in Acrobat Reader you cannot save anything but an empty form. I have searched for security levels in the form but I cannot find anything. Howcome can't you save the document you have made as a copy in Reader? Is there a way of getting around this issue? I cannot put all collegues on the Adobe Professional program, it would be too expensive.
Please help! I hate having to go back to excel because of this malfunction.
Best regards from Sweden
Annika

Sorry, I was wrong, we don't have the professional suite. We purchased the Creative Suite 3 Design standard. However the Adobe Acrobat program itself is version 8 professional.
From what I understand the only way to make the form savable in Adobe reader for my collegues is that I buy also the Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions.
The price for this extension is 1500 USD.
To try to explain once more what I want to be done...
I am making forms for my collegues, where they can fill in their travelling costs, their working hours etc etc. This they have to do once an month and then send to their boss. BUT my collegues have only Adobe Acrobat reader, and with that program you can only save an empty form, ie the form empties itself when saving. But of course my collegues wants a copy of their working hours, travelling costs saved on their own computer. Prints are not acceptable.
Please help, I can't figure out how to open up the saving rights for my collegues in my adobe professional program...
Sorry for beeing so dumb, but I don't understand...

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I created a form in Acrobat X. I need to be able to send this form to some of our team members so they can fill out and save it as a read only file that can then be sent to customers. How can I do this?

Reader 10/11 has a means to flatten a form as part of the EchoSign e-signing tools. They could fill-in the form and select: Sign > I need to sign > Signed. Proceed to Send > Save a Copy
You'll just need to instruct your team members how to do this. It is more secure (for lack of a better term) since it removes the form fields but leaves their appearances, making it more difficult for someone to change. Most people wouldn't know how to change the values of read-only fields, but it's quite easy for someone who does.
This option won't be available if the document is Reader-enabled, but if your team members are using Reader 11 they will be able to save a form without it being Reader-enabled.

How to save PDF form results online

I have a form that is a job application. I currently have a form made in html that sends the results to an email. The email would contain an array of results. The results are ugly because there are so many different variables. Putting the results into a PDF form would be a lot better. Here are two different options that I have worked up:
Option 1
I would like the PDF to be viewed by the user filling out the application and be able to be sent to the company's email directly as a pdf. I do not want the results in XML format or FDF format. The company does not have Acrobat Pro to load the results. Unless there is a way to do it without Acrobat Pro I would like to stay away from that. We are using a PHP5 system.
Option 2
I would like the user to fill out a form (non pdf) and my server to process the array and plug in the results into a PDF form that will send to the company's email as an attachment. The form needs to be in PDF format not FDF or XML.
I have the programming knowledge to send the email. I simply do not know how to get the form in a PDF format after the forms are filled out.
Thanks for your help!
--Justin Massey

Your first option leads for license issues if you have many applicants to deal with. The second option is reasonable, but you would submit the form data (FDF or XML) to a web server that would process the data. The data can then be used to repopulate the form to send to the administrators. I am not sure about the license restrictions on the latter, but I think it is within bounds. The issue with the second approach is the development of the system to do the process.

How to save PDF form to a KM Folder in Portal

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I have a requirement to save ADOBE Form to KM folder in portal and again access that form for changes.
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Hi Manish
just a bit of rather high-level input: What you want is possible from a technology point of view, i.e. NetWeaver provides you with all the tools you need, but essentially you need to build an application that does all the things you want from scratch.
Interactive Forms has no standard persistence mechanism for the generated PDF forms, as the way such PDFs are handled differ from app to app, from customer to customer, and NW isn't able to accommodate all wishes. Some of the SAP applications provide mechanisms sich as storing files in KM or Records Mgmt, but this is limited.
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Hi All,
This is my first time posting on this forum so not sure what way to go about it so i'll just start by explaining my problem.
I purchased adobe acrobat xi standard to create pdf forms(fillable forms) so that the receipents of these forms can open them in adobe reader, save them on their local drive and fill them in.
However, when I uploaded them online(as they will be downloaded from an internal website) - when the forms are opened in the browser this error appears
Currently when this error appears the client canno fill in their data or save it.
Any help on this issue would be appreciated!
Noel

Thanks for replying pat - that was another question I have. Is there a way I can get a dialog box to pop up when they click on the forms button?
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As at the moment, they would have to click the actual "save" icon - and the same error will appear on their local disk?

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Hello all, I created a form in LiveCycleDesigner ES 8.2 and extended the rights in Acrobat pro and my client says that he tried to insert text and save it and then re-open it and wasn't able to insert text again once it was saved? Any suggestions?
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Hi,
If you go to http://www.acrobat.com you can set up a free account and upload files. Just remember to publish/share the file and then post the url here:
In the meantime, check the binding for the objects on the form. In LC Designer go to the Object > Bindings tab, you should have normal/name. If they are set to none that may be the problem.
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I created pdf form in SFP in our Sandbox. Now I want to upload this form into the Dev.
The form is residing in Sandbox SAP. So I have somehow to move this form out of SAP.
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Dear All,
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I'll apologize up front for the length of this post. I have a few database procedures I created that write a file to a BLOB column in a table as well as retrieve the BLOB from the column after it stored there. I have successfully stored many different types of binary file to the database using these procedures - including PDF files. I have not used these procedures in a Form so I can confirm that they will work, but theoretically they should work. I'm including the code for each procedure in this posting - hence the apology for the long post! :-)
Also, since these procedures reside on the database you will need to use Forms TEXT_IO built-in package to write your file to the server before you can use these procedures to store and retrieve the file from the database.
These procedures reads and writes a binary file to a table called "LOB_TABLE." You will need to modify the procedure to write to your table.
-- Author : Craig J. Butts (CJB)
-- Name   : load_file_to_blob.sql
--        : This procedure uses an Oracle Directory called "IN_FILE_LOC". If you
--           already have a directory defined in the database or would prefer to use
--           a different Directory name, make sure you modify line 21 to reflect the
--           new Directory name.
-- ==================================================================================
-- History
-- DATE        WHO         DESCRIPTION
-- 12/11/07    CJB         Created.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE load_file_to_blob (p_filename IN VARCHAR2) IS
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   vErrMsg := 'Successfully inserted BLOB '''||p_filename||''' of size '||blob_length||' bytes.';
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END;
-- Author   : Craig J. Butts (CJB)
-- Name     : write_blob_to_file.sql
-- Descrip : This procedure takes a BLOB object from a database table and writes it
--             to the file system
-- ==================================================================================
-- History
-- DATE        WHO         DESCRIPTION
-- 12/11/07    CJB         Created.
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      SELECT blobdata
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END;Hope this helps.
Craig...
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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
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We created a PDF Form (Acrobat 11 standard) and located in company server. After fill up, it will be close & saved by script. It is working for some persons, but few person face the problem when they save PDF form in server "The file may be read only or another user may have it open. Please save the document with a different name or in a different folder.". It is sure that others not opened PDF form parallely.
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The message is telling the user either another program has the file open or another user is using the form.
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