Live Cycle Designer

With JavaScript you can set all the fields to ReadOnly, but the only way to make a form truly static is to flatten it.

In a flattened document the appearance of the filled in form fields is pushed into the background page content and the form fields are removed. This is good for print and archival, not good if you want to extract the data electronically. Flattening can only be done in Acrobat Professional or Standard. It's not something the users do, it's something you do when you get the form back.

Here's a link to a free toolbar button for flattening.

[url=http://www.windjack.com/products/freestuff.php]http://www.windjack.com/products/freestuff.php[/url]

Another option would be to have the user sign the data they entered or even the entire PDF document upon submission. This way, you would know if someone tampered with the document in any way because the signature would be invalidated if such a thing happened while the document was in transit.

In Designer 8.0, it's easy to setup the submit button to sign the entire PDF or just the data: On the Submit tab in the Object palette (assuming you've used a regular button object from the Library palette and set it to be a submit button), or on the Field tab for the email and http submit buttons, you'll find a "Sign Submission" check box. Check it and then press the "Settings" button that it enables in order to setup the digital signature parameters.

I have a submit botton that is not predefined as email or submit and I do not have the option to sign submission. Do you have any code suggestions I can on the click event?