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RachleK
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May 31, 2017
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Getting Rid of Form Fields

  • May 31, 2017
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I have an Adobe PDF with blue form fields.  I have filled out the information required, and now want to save it with out the blue boxes showing up/other people being able to edit it.  How do I save the document so that the form fields no longer show up?  Thank you!

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DimitriM
DimitriM
Inspiring
May 31, 2017

Hi RachleK,

One way to get rid of the blue highlights and make the fields no longer interactive is to flatten the fields.  We have a tool for doing that and a description can be found here-

Selective Flatten Tool Description

If this is the only form you want to do this to and you are familiar with JavaScript in Acrobat, you could also flatten the fields and get rid of the blue highlight from the Console Window using this.flattenPages()

Hope this helps,

Dimitri Munkirs

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 31, 2017

In Adobe Acrobat you can flatten the form fields.

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gkaiseril
Inspiring
May 31, 2017

That is an application preference. You can use JavaScript to tirn off the rin time highlighting. Bit it could change you your application's preference.

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