Greetings all. First time poster. Just found this site after searching for answers with not much luck. Looks like this is where I need to be to learn about Acrobat!
This has probably be answered before but I don't know what to search for, so it's causing me search issues, so sorry for asking again.
First time Acrobat user as well. Used the form wizard to make a invoice form. Looks great, everything is what I want, but when I finish, it wants me to "distribute" it. When I do that, it sends the editable file to the end user. I don't want that. I just want the finished file I did to be a pdf that is emailed to the customer, automatically or manually. I'm not hung up on automatic at all.
I've racked my brain for 2 days trying to figure out how to make it so it's editable by me, and then just a flat pdf file that ends up in the customers hands, but I sure can't figure that out. No matter what I do, or how I do it, it sends a pdf that has all the blue boxes over it, looking for them to make changes.
I know I am overlooking the obvious, so can someone please explain it or tell me where it's explained?
Thanks-
Scott
After creating the form don't use the distribute feature ( just cancel out of it). Go to Advanced ->Security ->Password Encrypt and use the Permissions section to provide a password and select the options you want, probably in your case you want to allow printing but not editing. Then save the PDF but make sure you know the password in case you yourself want to change it later.If you want to make it so neither you nor anyone else can change data in fields you could use JavaScript to flatten all form fields ( bake then into the PDF) so they are part of the PDF page and no longer interactive. A free tool for doing this is available at www.pdfscripting.com in the Free Content section called "Flatten Page Content Tool." BUT, once you flatten the fields there is no going back- it is not a reversible action, so keep a backup copy of your form if you use it on a regular basis.
Hope this helps,
Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
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Dimitri Munkirs
WindJack Solutions
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