Operation Manual

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USING ACROBAT X STANDARD
Forms
Last updated 10/11/2011
• Click Launch to open a web browser to access the FormsCentral service.
5 Enter your Adobe ID and password, or sign up for a free account.
Adobe FormsCentral starts, and you can begin creating a form from scratch or from a template. For detailed
instructions, click the Help menu in the upper-right corner of the window and choose FormsCentral Help.
Additional resources
For videos about Adobe FormsCentral, see these resources:
• Create a form using FormsCentral: www.adobe.com/go/learn_acr_formscentral_create_en
• Distribute a form and manage responses using FormsCentral:
www.adobe.com/go/learn_acr_formscentral_distribute_en
Enable Reader users to save form data
Ordinarily, Reader users can’t save filled-in copies of forms that they complete. However, you can extend rights to
users of Reader 8 and later so they can do so. If you have Acrobat Pro, you can include additional capabilities for Reader
users.
1 Open a single PDF, or preview a component PDF in a PDF Portfolio.
2 If you are editing the form, click Close Form Editing in Forms task pane.
3 Enable Reader users to do any of the following:
• Save data in interactive or fillable forms (File > Save As > Reader Extended PDF > Enable Adding Text In
Documents).
• (Acrobat Pro) Type in non-fillable forms (File > Save As > Reader Extended PDF > Enable Additional Features.
• (Acrobat Pro) Add comments or digitally sign PDFs (File > Save As > Reader Extended PDF > Enable
Additional Features).
Note: Acrobat users can type in non-fillable forms, add comments, and digitally sign PDFs without requiring special
rights.
These extended privileges are limited to the current PDF. When you create a different PDF form, complete this task
again to enable Reader users to save their own filled-in copies of that PDF.
If you don’t want recipients to overwrite the blank form template by saving form data, do not extend rights in the
copy you send to them.
For troubleshooting tips on Reader-enabling forms, see this TechNote.
Limitations on saving filled-in forms locally
Acrobat Standard and Acrobat Pro, each allow Adobe Reader 8 or later users to fill in and save PDF forms locally. The
use of the Reader Extensions capability for local saving of PDF forms (called extended documents) is limited in two ways:
Number of deployed extended documents An Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro customer can send an extended
document to an unlimited number of recipients for them to fill in. For example, an Acrobat customer can post an
empty form template on a web page that allows users to fill in and save PDF forms locally. An unlimited number of
people can access the template. However, the Acrobat customer can collect only 500 responses from the filled-in form.
This limitation includes both hardcopy (paper form submission) and electronic representations of the filled-in form.
Number of recipients of the extended document An Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro customer can send an extended
document to no more than 500 unique recipients. For example, an Acrobat customer belongs to an organization with