Adobe Reader

[charlie]

I'd worry about it. One, more people will probably start using this
type of password protect and two, it really looks like Adobe is making
moves designed to stop others from making working PDF reader software.
I have no idea what to do about it but I did go back to Adobe and gave
up the billions and billions of gigabytes needed for it.<sigh>

I've had a similar but not as serious problem with state income tax forms.
Even in adobe (reader, not full adobe) you have to fill out the form
completely, then print it. You can save the unfilled out form only. In
previous years, I had to load an old adobie reader version to even print
the filled out form.
Even Corel Draw cannot deal properly with the form.
One year, I scanned the unfilled out form, then overprinted it with the
filled out info. This worked, but did not produce a form that was
"machine readable" by the state IRS systems. Type font and size
differences, I guess.

 

[Stan Brown]

I've had a similar but not as serious problem with state income tax forms.
Even in adobe (reader, not full adobe) you have to fill out the form
completely, then print it. You can save the unfilled out form only.

Why do they do this? Is it simply that they are too stupid to create
a saveable form, or do they have some reasonable reason?

With the Federal forms, I can save the form as I've filled it in.
With the New York State form, I can't. I actually have to print the
form to PDF to save it. It's ridiculous.

 

[XS11E]

Why do they do this? Is it simply that they are too stupid to
create a saveable form, or do they have some reasonable reason?

I *suspect* the reason they do this is to irritate me but that might be
wrong, it may be to make you buy the full version of Adobe?

 

[Joe Morris]

Why do they do this? Is it simply that they are too stupid to create
a saveable form, or do they have some reasonable reason?

With the Federal forms, I can save the form as I've filled it in.
With the New York State form, I can't. I actually have to print the
form to PDF to save it. It's ridiculous.

Since one form works and another doesn't, have you considered the
possibility that the fault lies in the person who created the form? (And
maybe it wasn't created using Acrobat...)

From a slightly downlevel copy of the Acrobat Bible:

"Forms are created in Acrobat Professional [...]. Form field data can be
saved with Acrobat Standard and Professional. You can also save form data
with Adobe Reader when the PDF form has been enabled with usage rights for
Adobe Reader. When opening PDFs in Adobe Reader that have not been enabled
with Reader Extensions you cannot save, import, or export data."

Joe Morris

 

[Stan Brown]

Since one form works and another doesn't, have you considered the
possibility that the fault lies in the person who created the form? (And
maybe it wasn't created using Acrobat...)

By "why do they do this" I think maybe you thought I meant "why do
forms behave in this way?" I actually meant "why do New York State
bureaucrats(*) create forms with these limitations, instead of
saveable forms like those created by the IRS?"

It was a cri de coeur; I doubt anyone here knows the answer.

(*) Plus those in Charlie's unnamed state, unless that's also NYS.

 

[XS11E]

By "why do they do this" I think maybe you thought I meant "why do
forms behave in this way?" I actually meant "why do New York
State bureaucrats(*) create forms with these limitations, instead
of saveable forms like those created by the IRS?"

It was a cri de coeur; I doubt anyone here knows the answer.

(*) Plus those in Charlie's unnamed state, unless that's also NYS.

Plus Arizona. I did answer, it's done to irritate us. There's no
other possible reason.