I've been reading up on this forum as to why the adobe rights are disabled after a user saves their data in Reader. I have been adding form fields in Adobe Standard 9 (without LiveCycle) save the file, test it in Reader, then Extend the Forms Fill-In for Adobe Reader and save the file with a slightly different name. The only usage rights that are allowed is to Save Form Data. When I test the file in Reader 7, I can save the data but when I go into the document to make sure my data is there, I get that dreaded and popular message "Adobe Rights have changed and are no longer valid dialog box...
I never changed the original extended file to cause this.
I did not have any problems with the forms that I had other people work on in Adobe Pro 8. It seems to be a Standard 9 and Pro 9 problem. Or, it could very well be me!
On another note, I have had a form that I added fields to, and extended it but then it told me that I couldn't even save my data without a Standard or Pro version. Yikes!
I use Reader 7 to test because these forms are for a volunteer organization and there are users on some early versions of Reader. I test in 7 but no earlier versions. This doesn't seem to be an issue in Reader 9. I cannot vouch for Reader 8.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've spent the last week researching but no anwers to help me solve this particular issue with 9.
Update: I just had one of my form writers take my form that was done in Standard 9 and Extend Forms Fill-In via Adobe Pro 8. She initally received a message stating hat the file appears to use a new format and it may not open or display correctly. I then got that same message when opening the extended version of the file. The document rights on the new form allow me to add comments and markup, a digital signature and save form data. Once I fill out the fields and try to save, also get another dialog box telling me that I need Adobe Standard or Professional to save (in this case it was 7 since I'm testing in Reader 7).
The forms that I am creating are initally PDFed by another party. The orignal forms are created in QuarkXpress 4.1 and PDFed using Acrobat Distiller 4.0 for Macintosh. I retrieve the files from a web site and save them to my hard drive to work on them.