Forms

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
July 20, 2023
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I have filled out a form/document.
I want to send the document to someone else, but I do not want them to view it as a form where they can edit the fields that I can edit.
Is there a format that I save it in before I send it?

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Thom Parker

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A common solution to this issue is to Print to PDF. This works if you only have Adobe Reader.

Printing a PDF to PDF is generally considered a bad practice, but it works.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

try67

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If you have Acrobat you can flatten the file.

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ZoeiAuthor

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This will hide the form fields created when I used "Prepare a Form"?

try67

Community Expert

Yes. You can do it using this code:

this.flattenPages();

Note this is NOT reversible, though, so maybe save the file under a new name, just in case you want to make changes to it later on.

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