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disabling user rights

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2007-07-19 06:40:21
crowbar
Registered: Jul 19 2007
Posts: 9

I hope this is the correct forum to post this in,

I have made a fillable form, with live cycle designer 8.0, part of the acrobat pro 8.0 package.
I made a nice little form, fillable fields, even does some light calculations (its an order acknowlegment form). I enabled user rights when I finished the form, and posted it on our companyweb internal site, for our secretary to fill in as needed. She opens it with reader 8, fills it in, saves it to her drive, and emails it to a client.
Only problem is that the user rights are still enabled in the saved copy (she uses a different file name). I would love to have the rights removed so that the client does not have the ability to alter the data. The only way that I found to remove the user rights is to "save a copy" with acrobat pro.

Is there a way to remove the user rights with the reader?

Thanks in advance

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2007-07-23 11:39:28
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crowbar
Registered: Jul 19 2007
Posts: 9
anyone, anyone? Bueller?
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2007-07-23 11:58:50
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
Use JavaScript to make all the fields read only before mailing the form. This can be done by a non-printable button on the form or added to the e-mail submit button.

George Kaiser

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2007-07-24 11:58:17
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crowbar
Registered: Jul 19 2007
Posts: 9
gkaiseril wrote:
Use JavaScript to make all the fields read only before mailing the form. This can be done by a non-printable button on the form or added to the e-mail submit button.
Thanks for the suggestion,
Sounds good, but I am rather new to this program. I do understand lots about javascript, can you point me to a resource to find the correct javascript commands to use?
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2007-07-26 11:11:03
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
For LiveCycle Designer see the "Scripting" document under the menu bar's "Help" option. For Acrobat forms down load the JavaScript documentation for the SDK.

George Kaiser

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2007-08-02 07:35:08
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
LiveCycle Designer, originally named JetForms, is a form designing program developed by JetForms and acquired by Adobe, first released with version 6. LiveCycle was and is a separate program form Acrobat, but either Acrobat or LiveCycle Designer can be used to create fillable interactive forms. LiveCycle Designer creates forms based on the XML language and adds enough code to be displayed by Acrobat/Reader. Unlike Acrobat Forms, introduced with version 4 of Acrobat, LiveCycle Designer uses 2 different scripting languages, FormCalc and JavaScript. And like the underlying XML, FormCalc is completely different from JavaScript and LC D JavaScript does have some commonality, but it can not just be cut and copied.

George Kaiser

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