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Enable Document Rights in Reader 8

pckranz
Registered: Jul 7 2010
Posts: 3

May I assume that I cannot enable document rights in Adobe Reader? I am trying to engage the Typewriter tool to temporarily write on my PDF. It has no form fields in it.

My Product Information:
Reader 8.0, Windows
Niall
Expert
Registered: Apr 26 2006
Posts: 62
Hi,

You are right, you cannot Reader Enable a PDF from within Reader itself.

You can apply rights such as Commenting and Form functionality using Acrobat v9 Standard (or Acrobat Professional v8 or v7).

I have a summary here: http://assurehsc.ie/blog/index.php/2010/05/using-livecycle-forms-in-acrobat-and-reader/

Hope that helps,

Niall

Hope this helps,

Niall
Assure Dynamics

pckranz
Registered: Jul 7 2010
Posts: 3
Thank you, Niall
Kealnt
Registered: Jul 17 2011
Posts: 2
Hello,
I am a graduate student and much of the research we use is via Adobe. It is very helpful to be able to highlight in the text. Is this something that each individual author has or is this something that I as a student can somehow manipulate? I simply cant afford to print 127 pages of research LOL. Not to mention, all the poor trees! So anyway is there a way I can just highlight,... I dont want to change their work or anything just highlight,... is that too much to ask? Help! = ) Thanks in advance no matter what!

K. Todd

Kealnt

Kealnt
Registered: Jul 17 2011
Posts: 2
Hello,
I am a graduate student and much of the research we use is via Adobe. It is very helpful to be able to highlight in the text. Is this something that each individual author has or is this something that I as a student can somehow manipulate? I simply cant afford to print 127 pages of research LOL. Not to mention, all the poor trees! So anyway is there a way I can just highlight,... I dont want to change their work or anything just highlight,... is that too much to ask? Help! = ) Thanks in advance no matter what!

K. Todd

Kealnt

George_Johnson
Expert
Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1875
Reader 10 is the first version to allow both text highlight annotations and sticky notes, without requiring usage rights. This will work if the document doesn't have security restrictions that prevent it.