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1. Re: Saving documents you create for later editing
try67 Oct 18, 2009 3:08 PM (in response to MetalShock)The answer to all your questions is yes. It's odd that you were not able to edit the file after opening it.
Did you save it as PDF/A by any chance?
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2. Re: Saving documents you create for later editing
MetalShock Oct 19, 2009 4:32 PM (in response to try67)Still having the same problem Let's start here. I AM A NOVICE with this software, but am pretty proud of some of the stuff I have done. Just wish I was able to save the documents for future editing.
This is what I did. I was unable due to time constraints last evening to finish the form I was developing. I was scared to save it and close it, so I just left it open on my pc and left my pc running until I got home from work today. In the meantime, last night I emailed it to my office. When I opened it up there it would only allow me to type in the fillable fields and save what I typed (as long as I opened the doc in acrobat... which I already knew). But I noticed an error on one of the drop downs that I created and it would let me do anything to the doc.
Got home from work, finished the form on my home pc (that I never shut down). When the form was done all I did was selectt File>Save As (I named the file Form0015) and the file type is Adobe PDF Files(*.pdf)
When I reopened the file in Acrobat it's the same thing. I can type in the fillabe fields, I get the purple bar at the top that says "please fill out the following form. If you are the form author, choose Distribute Form in the Forms menu to send it to your recipients". Really not even sure what that means.
I just want to know step by step what I am doing wrong. Any help is much appreciated.
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3. Re: Saving documents you create for later editing
Bill@VT Oct 19, 2009 5:47 PM (in response to MetalShock)You likely created the fom in Designer and would have to go back over to Designer to finish working on it. If you created the form in Acrobat, then you would just select the appropriate field to edit -- but I do not think this is the case for your form.
The word edit raises flags for some of us on the forum. Too many folks come to Acrobat to edit PDFs that they should edit in an original application. Adding form fields in Acrobat or Design is fine, but typically the basic form would be created in a word processor or layout tool. The PDF would then be created and the fields added. However, I think my first comment about Designer is appropriate. I rarely use Designer and am not sure how to tell you to reopen the file in Designer. It appears that you can simply open Designer and then open your form in Designer to continue the editing.
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4. Re: Saving documents you create for later editing
MetalShock Oct 20, 2009 1:52 PM (in response to Bill@VT)I actually created the form using WordPerfect. I actually figured it out. Like I said I am a "NOVICE" so using this software I have been winging it. Didn't know that I had to simply go to Forms>edit fileds. Now I feel like a dummy. Thanks for the input.


