[wplug] [OT] Acrobat's mysterious messages

[kimberly mckinnis]

I think this might answer your question. And yes, it sucks, because it seems
they do indeed want you to upgrade and take your money. Can you print and
mail the job app? Perhaps the company who posted it was unaware of Acrobat's
restrictions. 

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/326051.html
"Adobe Reader 6.0 and Adobe Reader 7.x allow you save a copy of a PDF file
to your local hard disk. However, they do not let you save changes you make
(such as incremental saves while filling out a form) unless the PDF file is
rights-enabled. To save changes in a PDF file that is not rights-enabled,
you must use Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional."

This might apply as a workaround, though I haven't tried it:
http://studio.adobe.com/us/search/content.jsp?lang=en&item=acr7qtsaveform

"If you complete a form once in an AdobeR PDF file, you can save the content
and reuse it the next time you fill out the form.

When you have completed a form, choose File > Form Data > Export Data from
Form in Adobe AcrobatR 7.0 (U.S.) to open the Export Form Data As dialog.
Browse to the location on your hard drive where you want to store the file.
Acrobat names the file using the form's name in the FDF file format. To
complete the process, click Save. If you work with a lot of forms, leave the
default filename. That way, you know which data file belongs to which form."

 

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+kim=starjewel.org at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+kim=starjewel.org at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Moran
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 5:09 PM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] [OT] Acrobat's mysterious messages

"Matthew J. Hughes" <mhues at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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.

No, no, no.  You're misunderstanding me.

This is a PDF _form_.  Much like an HTML form.  It's intended to be filled
out, except Acrobat won't let me do anything with it once I've filled it
out, except print it!

It's also very polite in that it lets me fill out the 3 page job
application, _THEN_ it tells me that it can't save anything I've done.

A slightly earlier warning would have been nicer.

--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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