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Validation options and multiple signatures ?

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2008-09-18 09:02:20
bitshift
Registered: Sep 18 2008
Posts: 11

Im an acrobat newbie. My company is asking me to find out our options for using fillable forms that a user can complete with nothing but the Adobe reader. They will need to sign using a signature pad also. There could be multiple signatures, both on a given page and within the document.

Here are my questions:

(1) Can a form be filled out by a user with just the Acrobat reader and the data be saved to the PDF ?
(2) Can multiple signatures be placed on a PDF page but only one of them cause the PDF to be locked so that no futher editing can be done ?
(3) What are the ways to validate input fields, Ive seen some reference to javascript ?
(4) Are any of these things available only in a specific version (and later) of Acrobat. I think our current version is 7.x

If the PDF is locked and the user uploads this file to our server, can the data in the form still be read ? Im looking at using iText for reading the data within the forms.

thanks in advance

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 7.0.9, Windows
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2008-09-26 22:32:05
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plevy
Expert
Registered: Jul 8 2008
Posts: 80
1) Saving form data to a file cannot be done in Reader unless the form has been "Reader enabled" in Acrobat Pro or by a LiveCycle Server. There are license limitations for doing this with Acrobat Pro.

2) Yes. If you are using digital signatures, specific signature fields can lock the form in various ways. If you are using signature pads to just mark up the document, you can write Javascript to make fields read-only.

3) Yes, Javascript code on the form can validate field values and pop error messages or turn fields red for errors.

4) 7.x is a bit on the old side but should be able to do all of these things.
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