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adriannef67095130
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February 8, 2019
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Need to add comments and edit fillable fields--totally stuck!

  • February 8, 2019
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I've created a dynamic PDF in LiveCycle. I want the end-user to be able to open in Reader DC, fill it out, email it to a reviewer. The reviewer needs to be able to add comments/make edits.  I cannot come up with a scenario where this works.  I either have fillable fields OR comments, but not both.  I also opened the document in Pro and re-saved before opening in Reader DC. No dice. I've read that dynamic forms can't have comments, but this seems difficult to believe.  I need to have our reviewers add edits to the document.

Any help would be appreciated!

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Test Screen Name
Legend
February 11, 2019

HTML forms are very flexible, but they are a collaboration between a web designer and a professional web programmer. Some HTML forms are very smart. They are not, however, an image of a page, like a PDF form.

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Legend
February 8, 2019

It is not so much Designer that is dying, as dynamic forms. Using different software to make them is not going to help. The regular forms, made in Acrobat itself, are the way forward for PDF forms, but really the world is migrating to HTML forms. PDF forms have increasing difficulties.

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adriannef67095130Author
Participant
February 11, 2019

Thank you--- Do I need specific software to create/house an HTML form? Would a form like that be able to be edited/commented upon? Or would that depend on the way it was created. I've spent so much time creating this dynamic PDF only to find out after the fact that it doesn't work the way we need it to, I don't want to make the same mistake if I pursue HTML version.

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Legend
February 8, 2019

Yes, dynamic forms can't have comments. It can only have its own special form elemens, which replace every normal PDF feature. But LiveCycle Designer is at the end of its life, and you should be migrating to regular forms now.

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adriannef67095130Author
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February 8, 2019

Thank you--I'm just shocked there isn't a work around.  I only just started using Designer for this project.  Can you elaborate more on "regular forms". Perhaps the functionality I need can be achieved in a different program?

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