"On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:36:33 -0700 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> > Acrobat Reader, the free version, doesn't save filled in forms, you > > can only print them. Of course if the student has a PDF printer he/she > > can print the filled form and mail that back; > Acrobat Reader 7.0 does. An easy example is to download a US Government > tax form (say a Form 1040): > <snip> > Now whether you can create and save forms via OOo so that the PDF will > keep the form might be another story. I am not familiar enough with the > options for exporting to PDF: > > Submit forms in format: > Select the format of submitting forms from within the PDF file. > This setting overrides the control's URL property that you set in the > document. There is only one common setting valid for the whole PDF > document: PDF (sends the whole document), FDF (sends the control > contents), HTML, and XML. I just tried this too. I opened a new, blank Writer document, fumbled around until I found the Forms toolbars, and created a document with a Text box and a Date box, as a test to see how it would go. Then I exported as PDF, using the default settings. And then I opened the test document in Adobe Reader 7.0. (This was all on my Ubuntu-64 Breezy computer. I did not do any of this on any other platform.) I was able to type anything I wanted into the boxes I had created. So far it looked like it would work. But when I went to save it, I got: "This document does not allow you to save any changes you have made to it unless you are using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard or Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional. You will only be saving a copy of the original document. Do you want to continue?" I went ahead and told it to save the copy. And when I opened the copy, sure enough, it was just a copy of the original document; none of the sample text I had typed in the boxes was saved. Then I went back to my Writer document and re-exported it as PDF several more times, each time altering one of the options -- FDF, PDF, HTML, XML and "Tagged PDF." None of them made any difference. Each attempt still produced a PDF in which I could make edits in the fields I had created, but the file could not be saved with the edits. So it appears you are completely correct. There is something in the security settings that I need to be able to change in order to make this work. I also checked the Help files and found the following: When creating PDF files Select to see a warning dialog when you try to export a document to PDF format that displays recorded changes in Writer, or that displays notes. However, that seems to be just a way to prevent the PDF file from having stuff that you don't want to appear in it. It does not address security in the resulting PDF document. However, evidently it can be done. It's just a matter of figuring out if OO.o already has the functionality and I haven't found the button for it yet, or if this is something to add to the wish list for future versions. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
