Creating an Editable PDF?

[klmhicks@adobeforums.com]

<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Thanks Jon, the files are large due to the fact of embedding the photos.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Yes - the PDF Optimiser under the ADVANCED menu in Acrobat 7/8 <BR>
Professioanl can remove Piece information from Illustrator ....<BR>
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The reason I mentioned this particular area is the potential file size <BR>
bloat ...<BR>
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Jon<BR>
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[klmhicks@adobeforums.com]

<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Very cool JET! Thank you very much for you time in explaining this so well. <BR>
Does this also work in Acrobat 7 Professional as I have not upgraded yet and was hoping to wait for CS3 Suite.<BR>
Kathy<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Kim,<BR>
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1. Create your design in AI, FH, PS, whatever. In the layout, leave room for the individual recipients' contact info (we'll call this the imprint area). Save or Export a PDF.<BR>
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2. Open the PDf in Acrobat 8 Professional. Use the Forms toolbar's text field tool to add text field(s) in the imprint area. You can doubleClick a field to set its attributes. (Recommend using separate fields for name, address, phone, web address, etc., arranged in a vertical column. Reason is, you probably can't predict the length of each recipient's name (or address), so you'll want to set the name field's text size to Auto. That will cause the size of the name's text to change so as to allow the whole name to appear in the bounds of the field.) Go ahead and enter default values in the fields like &quot;EnterYourNameHere&quot;, &quot;EnterYourPhoneHere&quot;, etc.<BR>
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3. From the Advanced menu, select Enable Reader Usage Rights. That will enable the PDF to be saved by Reader versions 7 or newer.<BR>
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Your recipients can now open the form (any PDF with an editable field is considered a &quot;form&quot;) using Reader, enter their text in the fields, and then save the PDF with their edits surviving.<BR>
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[James_Talmage@adobeforums.com]

Does this also work in Acrobat 7 Professional as I have not upgraded yet
and was hoping to wait for CS3 Suite.




Kathy,

No. Reader Enabling is a new (and long requested) feature of Acrobat Pro 8. (Biggest reason to upgrade, in my opinion.) But the enabled form can be saved by Reader 7 or newer.

JET

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

Ok, I think that, to be honest, you will not find it practical to do
what you want with PDF. If you want to share editing responsibilities,
you probably all need to have the same editor.

However, maybe you could do it with a form field; you could try. Use
the forms tools on the Advanced Editing toolbar. You will not have
much in the way of typographic control.

Users will need Acrobat NOT the Reader to save these changed files
UNLESS you prepare them specially in Acrobat Professional 8.0.

They might not be printable by a print shop; I would be wary of using
form fields AT ALL in anything designed for a print shop. Many print
shops use software that drops form fields; or might reject these
secure PDF files, or ones from software as recent as 8.0.

Aandi Inston