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Students unable to create forms using Acrobat Pro 8

lesliesoup
Registered: Jan 29 2007
Posts: 9

We have installed Acrobat 8 on 30 of our machines and have run into the following problem. We are teaching creating forms, however students are unable to create or edit forms, also the Adobe PDF tool bar icon does not appear for students. If we add the students to the Administrator group on the local machine they are able to edit and create forms. We really don't want to do this for obvious reasons. This gives them access to the whole machine. Do any of you know which directories or files Adobe Acrobat needs access to? Perhaps if we gave students read/write access to these it would fix the above problem. Have any of you had problems with this.

thanks,

Leslie

gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
You have to enable the student's user accounts security rights to use the Acrobat PDF printer and access to the necessary temp files used by Acrobat.

The joys of a multiuser system.

George Kaiser

lesliesoup
Registered: Jan 29 2007
Posts: 9
Thanks. Do you happen to know which directory these Temp files are located in?

thanks

Les
gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
All of the tool bars including forms are plugins and are located either in the applications program directory:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat #.0\Acrobat\plug_ins

Where "#" is the major version number

Set permissions for users to access the above directory.

or can be in the All Users ro the individual's settings directory.

So one could copy the "plug_ins" folder from the applicton directory to either the "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\application\\Adobe\Acrobat #.0\Acrobat\plug_ins" or the idividual users application directory, "C:\Documents and Settings\SpecificUser\application\\Adobe\Acrobat #.0\Acrobat\plug_ins".

George Kaiser

lesliesoup
Registered: Jan 29 2007
Posts: 9
Thanks. We will give that a try...