To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73696 Issue #|73696 Summary|Acrobat Reader can't fill and save PDF forms exported |from OOo Component|Word processor Version|OOo 2.0.4 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P2 Subcomponent|save-export Assigned to|mru Reported by|dardhal
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jan 20 14:09:27 -0800 2007 ------- Adobe Acrobat Reader (both version 7 and 8) complains when trying to save a PDF with forms filled, if this PDF comes from an OOo document "export to PDF". As one can read in the following official Adobe information, to make this functionality work you have to right-enable the PDF document: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=326051 In the "Security" tab of OOo Writer there is an option to "Restrict Permissions" (free translation from the spanish localized version), and if you enter a password here it enables the following options to restrict several actions that people can do with your document: print and resolution, make changes to the PDF, etc. If you choose "fill form fields" in the "changes" section, supposedly you are right-enabling your exported PDF document, and restricting changes so to only allow form filling. Unfortunately, when you open the exported PDF with Acrobat Reader and fill the forms, it still says it cannot save a modified copy of the document. However, if you look at the document properties from Acrobat Reader (Document -> Security -> Show security settings for this document) the information matches what was specified in the OOo PDF export dialogs, including the ability to edit forms. I have used this same version of Adobe Acrobat Reader to fill and save forms previously with no problems. I don't know if the reported problem has to do with Reader being too picky about the document internals, a bad PDF export filter in OOo writer or what, but this prevents OOo full featured forms editor to be used for many kinds of things. Something as normal as a simple recruit form, published in some web page, and sent back once it is filled is something you can not currently do with OOo, and is a pity. You hace to resort to some propietary and expensive and/or Windows only software, or search an alternative path to recruiting. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
