PDF Forms

The specifics depend on how you are making the forms (LiveCycle or Acrobat) and how you are planning on using the form.

There are basically two techniques. You can make all the fields ReadOnly, or you can flatten the form. Making the individual form fields ReadOnly leaves them in-place on the form for further processing at some later time. Flattening, pushes the visual appearance form field data into the PDF Page Content and deletes the actual form fields.

Thanks. I was able to flatten the form fields and it worked. Here is what I did:

To Make a PDF form read only

1. Go to PDF Optimizer
2. Highlight “Discard Objects”
3. Check “Flatten Form Fields” box
4. Save as new file.

If there is an easier or different way let me know.

I could not figure out how to make individual form fields read only. There is nothgin in the Acrobat help index on "read only."

Just upgraded to Acrobat 9 Professional from 8. Using Windows 7 64 bit.

I file a lot of fillable forms that are filed online. However, to submit them they need to be stripped of any embedded fonts etc. Typically, I have been printing them to Adobe Acrobat. With version 8 this worked. With Acrobat 9 Pro it still works, but the form filled print is dark with the remainder of the form being washed out or faded in comparison. If I print to my printer the remainder of the form is still dark. I cannot seem to get it to print to pdf without the form itself being washed out with the form fields appearing darker.

The only solution I found was to print to Cutepdf Writer, which I downloaded a few days ago and is useful for stripping out embedded fonts. When printing to Cutepdf the form text is not washed out.

Any way for getting Adobe Acrobat to not do this?