How do I allow a form to be saved

Hi Jake,

You don't say what version of Acrobat you have and the menus have changed, but what you need to do is Apply Reader Rights to the form- in Acrobat 8 and 9 this is under the Advanced menu "Enable usage Rights in Adobe Reader."
In Acrobat X you perform this under the File menu, Save As-> Enabled for Adobe Reader.Hope this helps,

Dimitri
www.pdfscripting.com
www.windjack.com

I created in livecycle designer 8.2 and cannot find the option that you are talking about.

Hi Jake,

Open the PDF form in Acrobat to add the Rights, not in LiveCycle Designer. Also, you must Save it after applying the Rights (you can do it under a new name so as not to overwrite the original if you want). Keep in mind that if you do any editing to the form after applying Rights/Save then you must reapply them, as just about all editing tasks nullify Reader Rights.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
www.pdfscripting.com
www.windjack.com

OK I am using acrobat 9 pro and I do not see that option under the advanced tab?

In Acrobat 9 it should look like

http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-3029447-36591/advanced+menu.jpg

I'm using 9.4.4 and I can't find this option. Under advanced and Accessibility the "Change Reading Options" is greyed out and that is the only place that I think it might be.

Are you using Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader?

Wee need to know the very exact title of the product. If it is Adobe Reader, you can not apply any extended rights as the Reader product is only a free reader.

I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.4.4

You need to open the LiveCycle PDF in "Adobe Acrobat" (Not Adobe LiveCycle) to enable usage rights.

In Windows Explorer:
Right click PDF->Open with...->Adobe Acrobat Pro.


In Adobe Acrobat Pro:
Filemenu->Advanced->select "Enable Usage Rights in Adobe Reader"
Save the new PDF as a different file name.


Voila! you just created a PDF with Usage Rights Enabled for Reader users.


Now, if you want to do the same thing but, w/o the restrictions placed upon the reader enabled form by Adobe, just create submit button that points to a script.


Using FDFToolkit.net (ASP.net), or iText (for Java/PHP), you can merge the XDP/FDF/XML submission data with a blank form and silently e-mail it,store it in a database, and/or output the merged PDF back to the browser for the user to download and save.

Useful links:
http://www.fdftoolkit.net/