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Preventing saving a form that allows filling in and printing.

erniebri
Registered: Apr 23 2007
Posts: 4

Donna Baker responded that security allows you prevent saving the form. Unless I'm missing something you can only restrict printing and editing, but not restrict saving a form. I use Acrobat 7.0 Professional.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0.0, Windows
dbaker
Expert
Registered: Feb 10 2006
Posts: 413
Hi --

My response was generic. Sorry, I should have been more specific.

You can't prevent a user from saving a copy of the form. If you are using a password, you can restrict the printing to a low quality print, for example. Also, disallowing any changes in the form will prevent the user from copying and pasting content from the form to another file.

I hope that clears up the confusion.

donna.

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