[wplug] [OT] Acrobat's mysterious messages

[Matthew J. Hughes]

If I remember correctly the only *real* problem you have is not having 
sent Adobe your $150....err $300. jeez, prices do change. Reader is for 
reading if you wanna write it is gonna cost you! Adobes minimum product 
is Adobe acrobat Standard [1]. Though you can pay more if you want [2]. 
Unless you use the open source tools, then of course it is free.
    I think what you really want to do is read a PDF, modify it, and 
output the changes. PDF was never really meant to do that. PDF is really 
more of a display format, and a controlled one at that. Quite frankly I 
was surprised to see the save button in my browser for PDFs, they always 
seemed to not want you to have a copy of the things. I never tried it 
but I always imagined that pdf2html, modify, html2pdf would do the 
trick. If you do it, please let us know how.

-matt

[1] http://store.adobe.com/store/products/master.jhtml?id=catAcrobatStnd
[2] http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/matrix.html

Bill Moran wrote:

>
> It looks as if Adobe has been taking lessons from Microsoft.  If not,
> they've certainly picked up MS' ability to provide cryptic and
> mostly useless error messages.
>
> Acrobat reader 7 says
> "Data typed into this form will not be saved.  Acrobat Reader 7 can only
> save a blank copy of this form."
>
> With _absolutely_no_indication_of_why_!
>
> The Windows and Linux versions both give me similar messages.
>
> Does anyone know WTF is going on with this?  Are both of my installations
> of AR flawed?  Is something wrong with the PDF provided to me?  Is
> AR simply crippled and unable to do this?
>
> I haven't been able to find anything online regarding these messages - at
> least, nothing helpful.
>
> -- 
> Bill
>
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