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To create the PDF forms including attachments with it from the fillable form.

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February 17, 2020
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While creating a fillable form I have provided the attachments option to attach files(I have used the javascript option here as provided at https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/add-an-quot-attach-file-quot-button-to-a-pdf-form/td-p/8812972?page=1). after this I am trying to print this form as Microsoft Print to PDF and it's generating the PDF but without attachments.

Please guide me as I want to create the PDF forms including attachments with it from the fillable form.

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Correct answer try67

Hello Try67,

Again thanks for the reply.

Is it possible to save that fillable form after filling the details and adding attachments into a noneditable pdf format with all the attachments and filled details?

As was said multiple times, there's no such thing as a non-editable PDF file. The best option is to digitally sign it, so it would at least be possible to prove that the file has been edited, if it was. If you use a Digital Signature field you can set it to lock all the fields when signed, and it will automatically validate the rest of the file's contents, including the attachments.

JR Boulay

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Refrying PDFs, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly:

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A68be905e-5698-4cd4-9a87-61e7ab9ba3fe

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

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Info: printing to a PDF printer is considered a very bad idea for many reasons. It preserves only the visual appearance of PDF, as it would be printed. It cannot do anything else, as it works through printing. Hence all form fields are flattened, as you perhaps want. Hence, all form filling is lost, as you perhaps want. Hence, all attachments are lost. This is not what you want. Forget this "refrying". I suggest you forget the "read only" requirements as this is just an illusion; plenty of common apps will edit it anyway.

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GRU1KORAuthor

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Hello Test_Screen_Name,

Thanks for the comment.

Is it possible to save that fillable data and added attachments into a noneditable pdf format with all the attachments and filled details?

try67

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Why are you "re-frying" the form (ie, using a PDF printer to print an existing PDF file)?

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GRU1KORAuthor

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Hello Try67,

Thanks for the reply.

My Objective is to generate one fillable form with an attachment option in it so that the end-user can fill the form and attach files in it and save that file in a noneditable format with all the attachments as a piece of evidence.

That's why I am trying to use a PDF printer to print an existing PDF file.

If this is not the right way please tell me how to save that file in a noneditable format with all the attachments where end-user have only PDF reader application.

try67

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The best way to do that is to digitally sign the file.

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