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2008-12-05 07:27:51
macamala
Registered: Dec 5 2008
Posts: 2

I'm not too familiar with Adobe , but I have a task to place forms on company's intranet. The problems is that these forms save data is accessed via IE. I need prevent form saving even if users have autosave turned on. I came across IRS website and they have form that do not autosave. I have no idea where this property might be or how to modify it. Any help is appreciated

Thanks

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 7.0, Windows
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2008-12-05 07:50:27
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
The form may not be saving the data at all, but information could be retained in cache buffers of Acrobat/Reader or the browser and then there is Acrobat/Reader's auto complete.

There are a number of documents dealing with this issue:

Document Security User Guide http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/doc_sec_user_guide_9.pdf
Adobe Reader 7: Minimizing Exposure of Personal Information on Public Computers http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/ReaderOnPublicComputers.pdf

The more recent IRS forms turn off the auto cache in the PDF, but this will only work when the user is using a product of version 7 or better.

George Kaiser

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