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Extracting data

TrudyF
Registered: Dec 8 2005
Posts: 17

I am still in Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and I have been asked a question I can't answer. Can the data being saved into the fields of an Adobe 8.0 PDF be extracted in Adobe 7.0 version?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Yes, in fact it could be exported by Acrobat 3. There has been no change in how fields are represented internally in an AcroForm PDF since form fields were added to PDF in Acrobat 3.05. This is even true to a large extent for LiveCycle forms.

Version dependance comes into play in how the data is exported. There are more export functions and data formats available in later versions of Acrobat.

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