I installed acrobat 8.0 pro beacause of the reader rights enabled feature, but I was disapointed to see no control over the rights. Does anyone know of a method, plug-in, or third party product that will allow the following?
-I would like users to be able to complete a form and save it as the form, but have all the form fields flattened with the data they entered inside. I need the form completed but uneditable as if it were printed on paper. I have found pdf print drivers that will do this, but I really need a solution that can be contained in a single program.
Where you find the flatten form fields feature (only in Acrobat 8 Professional) is in the PDF Optimizer. Look in the Discard Objects pane in the PDF Optimizer and you find the new option for Flatten form fields.
You can easily run the PDF Optimizer from a batch Sequence.
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The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.