How do I prevent people from saving a form

I have created a form in Adobe professional 6.0. This has fillable fields that I wish a supplier to complete and send back to me. this is saftey documentation and I can type in when opened in professional but when sent to another person and opened in Reader 7.0 it says that I cannot save data typed into this form. I really need this functionality to save, Can someone assist??

BOBBIE: you seem to have cottoned onto what everyone is on about!

the issue isn't people who are using reader, its other employings/ppl who are using PRO as well, but keep saving there data over the top of the forms that are meant to stay BLANK



So i get what you're saying about making it a read only file, but when i do that, it seems pro overides it and still allows people to save over the top? Surely theres something in Pro that allows the restriction of saving by ANY ONE ELSE - no matter what they're using to view the pdf....



Help please im going bananas.

LiveCycle Designer uses Acrobat as the previewer, so installing Reader may have changed the file associations at the OS level. Try uninstalling Acrobat and and reinstalling. I suspect there will be other problems with your configuration, like Reader being opened when one double clicks on a PDF file and your web browser uses the Reader plugin rather then the Acrobat plugin and forms no longer work the way you expect them to.

After upgrading to Reader 8.10, when I open up some documents in LiveCycle, the pdf reader (preview) does not work. Upon attempting to open the document, it gives me an error message "there is a problem with Adobe Acrobat/Reader. Please exit Adobe Acrobat/Reader and try again.' Then it will open the document as a "new untitled document". Sometimes it will shut down the application. Is there a fix for this??

Thanks.

Paula

I simply changed the properties of all my PDF forms to Read only so they have to give it a new file name. After they finish typing into it and click the save button they get the message,"The Document Could Not Be Saved. The file may be read only or another user may have it open. Please save the document with a different name or a different folder."

I understand that when opening the fillable document in Reader, they cannot save it, only print it. However, a few people in our company do have the Acrobat Pro as their default and when they open my fillable document, they may be able to save is with their info when they close it. Anyway around that???

I have a similar question. I created a survey form in LiveCycle Designer 8.0 that I want to be submitted by email as PDF but not allow those who fill the form to save the form. First I included a Submit by Email button which when clicked sends an email but the form is attached in XML format. The filled form cannot be saved.



One of the postings here suggested changing the Submit by Email button to a regular button, define it as Submit, enter the email address, and use PDF as the format. And use Enable Usage Rights in Reader under Advanced of Acrobat Pro. This time, when the Submit by Email button is clicked, the email is triggered, the form is attached in PDF format and the filled form CAN be saved.



But is there a way to allow sending the form by email in PDF format and DO NOT allow saving of the filled form?



Thank you for your help.

Hi, I have created a form and do not want the information saved if a person closes the form. Could you tell me where the setting is to disable that? (if there is such a thing).



Thanks

Sheryl

To "Save As" or "Save a Copy", the form must first be enabled using Acrobat Professional (you may or may not have this). If you do, open Pro, then open your form (or document). From the menu bar, select Advanced>Enabled Usage Rights in Reader. It'll prompt you to save the document again.

Close out your professional and try reopening the newly-saved/newly-enabled form from Reader. It should now allow you to "Save As" or "Save a Copy."

Thank you for your help. When I opened my document in Reader I was not allowed to save it but I could print it. (I could only save a "Blank Copy") Is there any way I can make it so it will "SAVE AS" or "SAVE a COPY"?



Thanks