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2010-04-21 10:30:28
Jesssolorzano
Registered: Apr 21 2010
Posts: 2

I have several documents that I have to fill out, save, and then email them back into a potential employer. I have tried on several different computers to fill out these documents but each of them say, "Please fill out the following form. You cannot save data typed into this form. Please print your completed form if you would like a copy for your records." This is said in a purple box across the top of each document that I have to fill out.

How can I get past this so that I can save, and then email these forms back in?

My Product Information:
Reader 9.3, Windows
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2010-04-21 11:12:33
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radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
You'll will have to enable the "Usage Rights" for Adobe Reader.
This can be done with Adobe Acrobat/Pro.
If you're not the author of these documents or don't have Acrobat, ask the person how created them to to do this.

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2010-04-21 11:16:49
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trudolph
Registered: Jun 7 2007
Posts: 29
You can't. The form wasn't enabled to give you rights to be able to save the form data. What you can do is use either the Nuance Reader(free, but you have to download it from their website) as a alternate to the Adobe Reader to enter and save data on your forms.
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2010-04-21 11:37:21
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
You can download the 30 day free trial of Adobe Acrobat Pro from Adobe and use that to apply the extended reader rights. But after the 30 days you can not reinstall a trial version of Acrobat 9.0 again.

If you know some one that has version 8 Professional/Extended or Acrobat 9.0 Standard /Professional/Extended then you could have them enable the rights.

George Kaiser

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