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One of those rare times when both sides are right, in some sense. The info at: http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=98121,00.html explains it pretty well, although I havve not yet found anything on the subject at Adobe.On 10/5/05, Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Robert Bell wrote:I have to agree with Fritz, I have 7.0.1 and I still get the big pop up that says I cant save the data just the form.When I open an editable PDF, I get a popup telling me that I have the "right" to save my changes. It's possible that the file you're editting simply wasn't created properly. I suggest checking with one of the files from irs.gov.I confirm that with the files from irs.gov, it works fine. Paul
I suspect that the "NO document rights" is probably the default and that most creators of these forms are unaware of how to enable them. I've seen many which will not let you save, and for most of them there doesn't seem to be any good reason why the creator of the form would want to prevent you from this. Thank goodness I still have my old Acrobat 4 software, which allows me to design forms as well! And it will save the data in those forms that Reader 7 won't allow you to...
BTW, on my 7.0 install I did a Help->Updates and got patches to 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 and 7.0.3. Perhaps 7.0.1 is now the latest complete packaged download file available.
-- Fritz Whittington -- TI Alum -- http://www.tialumni.org "He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met." --Abraham Lincoln
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