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Restricting acrobat from saving

missy1967
Registered: Aug 31 2009
Posts: 3

Our forms are available online for everyone to access. Currently they are all in Word format. I have started switching them over to adobe forms because it is far easier to work with. The problem is, many people fill in the form online and then save to their hard drive (in Word, we set up the form as a template and everyone is forced to do a "save as" to save their forms).

I need to be able to do the same thing with adobe, but I see no where how I can restrict the acrobat users from accidently saving the information online. I know how to restrict those individuals who have the abobe reader, but how can I restrict those who have acrobat writer.

Thank you,

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0, Windows
UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
You can't. Once someone has downloaded a PDF (which they of course have to do to open it) then it's their file, and they can save it wherever they wish. Why does it matter if they keep a copy, so long as they submit the form data back to you?
missy1967
Registered: Aug 31 2009
Posts: 3
You don't have to download our .pdfs to open them and fill them in.