My computer has Microsoft Word 2002, Adobe Reader 9, Adobe Acrobat Professional 8, LiveCycle Designer 8, Acrobat Distiller 8, and Windows XP.
I created a 55-page PDF document which needs to be sent to various vendors who in turn must fill in several sections of it and return same to me. The document was originally created in Word 2002. Using Adobe Acrobat 8, it was converted to PDF format, then the fill-in fields were created utilizing Adobe LiveCycle Designer. I have several questions.
1. Every now and then the form has to be updated/edited. Now for some reason when I click on “Document” the drop down selection choices for “Insert Pages,” “Replace Pages,” and “Delete Pages” are gray (not allowed) but “Extract Pages” is normal. What would cause this?
2. There are some text fields (fill-in sections) where I type in text but when I tab to the next fill-in section, the text I typed in disappears. If I return to that fill-in box, the text automatically reappears but disappears again when I tab. If I print the page out, any fill-in area where text disappeared remains empty. Yet there are other fill-in areas on the same page, created in the same format, that function normally. Any suggestions to correct this?
3. To go to a field (fill-in section), one must press the “tab” key. This works but for some reason the first four tabs result in stopping at an e-mail address in the document. Any way around that?
I’m new to Adobe Acrobat…“teaching” myself. I currently refer to several books: How to Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 8, Adobe Acrobat 7 Tips and Tricks, Adobe Acrobat 8 Classroom in a Book, and Creating Dynamic Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer. I just purchased Adobe Acrobat 9 PDF Bible, PDF Forms Using Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer Bible, Adobe Acrobat 9 How-To’s 125 Essential Techniques, How to Do Everything Adobe Acrobat 9, and Adobe Acrobat 9 Visual Quickstart Guide. I haven’t been able to find direction in any of them that refers to the above topics. Are there any other Adobe LiveCycle Designer textbooks that would benefit me?
a) The best way to convert from Word to PDF is via PDFmaker. It permits more editing than documents converted via Distiller. Since Word 2002 is old, I don't know whether PDFmaker is available for it. You can tell whether PDFmaker is available for an application if Adobe is added to the menu options at the top of the page and/or an Adobe button is added to the others at the top.
b) Objects (like fields) that were created in LiveCycle Designer cannot be edited in Acrobat.
The answers to your other questions ARE in the books you have, but they are not dictionaries, and so searching the indexes for answers to specific problems would be more frustrating than reading the books to understand the subject matter. Note that Acrobat is totally and utterly different from Designer. Bear that in mind for your readings.
If the converted PDF was imported into Designer, then you definitely will not be able to edit it in either Designer or Acrobat.