Cannot Edit a Form in Adobe Acrobat Pro Xi - use Livecycle

[dagardner105]

Hi all,

I was advised to buy Adobe Pro XI yesterday by the Direct Sales Adobe team because it includes "everything I need" to create and EDIT PDF forms.  I actually rang up to buy X but was told it was now XI.

I tried to edit a form today and got this message:

"this form cannot be edited in Acrobat. Please use Adobe Livecycle Designer to edit this form"

I was told this was included in Pro but can't get past this message.  I previously had a trial of Adobe Pro X and WAS able to edit this very form.

It is very frustrating.  I cannot edit anything I have been working on.

FormsCentral seems too basic as I need to be able to edit the field name in the properties of the field.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

David

[Emmy-B]

This would work if you just wanted to be able to type some text in... but I need javascript out of a form I built in LiveCycle Designer...  in 2009.   I'm rebuilding the form in Acrobat and I've no clue what the coding I used was. A bunch of currency fields have to be added, then some field's content will add or subtract and come out to a final total, but I don't have the details of which fields do what. This is a pain!

[Thom Parker]

Please post this to a new thread.

[Test Screen Name]

Be aware that if the form is to be submitted electronically, you should not edit it in LiveCycle Designer, or print it to PDF. What you end up with will look like the original but may be rejected, as a wrong or a blank form, by the robot that reads it (no human will). This may have serious consequences, especially for government forms.

[ianb10704575]

So, because we are unable to edit a LiveCycle PDF, the government form I am trying to digitally sign....is impossible to digitally sign.

In order to validate this official document with my signature, I'll need to either A) buy some $300 software that I'll use once, or B) print it out and mail it.

Good job!

[try67]

No, if the form is properly set up all you need is the free Adobe Reader to sign it.

[Test Screen Name]

LiveCycle Designer does not digitally sign.