Creating a PDF file with printable fields

Question

I have a PDF document, including printable fields, I want to do some chances in the text. When I try to edit, I got the informaion that it´s not possible because the file is saved in a XFA form. All the printable fields dissapears when I follow the instruction. I just want to change in some text in the original document, how can I do that?

Or how can I prepare a new document with the same kind of printable fields. I know I have done this in an older version of Acrobat. New and expensive program is not the best. I pay every month for Adobe Acrobate DC and I thought I could use it for my purposes.

Please, try to make the answer easy because I´m over 70 years old and not so inserted in the computor language.

try67 · Answer

XFA forms can only be edited using LiveCycle Designer, which used to be bundled with Acrobat Pro, but isn't any longer. If you have such a form and need to edit it then you basically need to re-create it from scratch as a "normal" Acrobat form. One way of doing that is to print it to the Adobe PDF printer to create a new file, then add the form fields, scripts, etc. to it once more.

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