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Help with PDF forms—making them work for Windows users

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2008-08-04 20:35:23
tuqqer
Registered: Aug 4 2008
Posts: 5

I'm using a new user of Mac Acrobat Pro 8.0.0 and having a helluva time figuring out how to make PDF forms that work for Windows users.

I can make the forms okay and Mac users can fill them out (using either Preview or Reader), and I get them emailed to me just fine. But all of the PC users that I send them to tell me that they "can't save them."

Here's a test PDF I've created (with just a few plain fields in it):
http://www.braintoniq.com/dropbox/test.pdf

Can someone who's got XP tell me what I'm doing wrong? Or what I can tell my XP users how to save it and be able to email it back with their text.

Many thanks for ideas.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0, Macintosh
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2008-08-04 20:44:17
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George_Johnson
Expert
Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
It doesn't have to do the the OS, but rather the PDF viewer. Reader users cannot save a modified PDF unless the PDF has been given certain rights, either with Acrobat or Adobe Reader Extensions.

George
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2008-08-04 20:57:08
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tuqqer
Registered: Aug 4 2008
Posts: 5
Ah. I found the answer:

You need to enable Reader Rights.

Advanced -> Enable Usage Rights in Adobe ReaderWeeee. It works now.
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