The point that I'm trying to make is that if you use special features to
create PDF documents using Acrobat, and then make these documents available
to cousins or anyone who only has Reader, then their ability to see and use
these features in Reader is dependent on options that you made when
creating. Adding annotations in Reader is one type of user right. It is not
a 'permission for sharing', although it is often used in situations where
documents are passed around for review. If, however, you add the annotations
with Acrobat, I'm not sure whether the user right must be enabled for the
person with only Reader to merely see them (not add any). Might be worth
checking. Same thing for attached documents. There is a user right for this,
and possibly the person with only Reader would not be able to see and open
your attachments, without this right being enabled (and the document being
'interactive'). Going from memory here. It was only a year and a half ago
when I worked with this stuff. :-)
We went through a similar discussion on the LUG a while back. The software
library used internally by Legacy to create PDF reports only creates them as
printforms, not interactive forms. That's fine for most reports, but it is
unfortunate for the 'blank' forms, since it prevents using Reader to fill
out the blank forms before printing.
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "William H. Boswell" <whbosw...@gmail.com>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:17 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] To pdf or not to pdf
I think you're speaking of the permissions for sharing with people who are
only using the Reader.
I forgot to mention that I'm using the latest Adobe Acrobat software. I
don't remember what the capabilities were of previous versions, or the
Reader since I don't use it. I believe version 9.xx has more capabilities
that previous versions did not.
I like creating forms in the new version. Version 8.xx and 9.xx allow you
to attach non-Adobe formats to your PDFs such as spreadsheets, documents,
etc.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of Ward Walker
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:35 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] To pdf or not to pdf
Bill,
Adobe Reader is able to add annotations to a PDF if the appropriate user
rights have been applied to the PDF. I suspect that the PDF must also be
created as interactive (not printform). Applying user rights might be done
by the software that creates the PDF, or even after the fact by software
such as Adobe Acrobat.
Previous posting to this list have suggested that certain third party PDF
readers can ignore user rights and perform some tasks that Adobe Reader
would restrict.
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: William H. Boswell
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] To pdf or not to pdf
...
I guess it's up to the user as to what their preference will be later on
down the road when you have thousands of images/PDFs. One big advantage
of
using the PDF files is that you can add notes to the file that would
otherwise have to be added in the genealogy program. I don't know if the
reader lets you do this since I use the full version.
Bill Boswell
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