PDF Forms

[Tony At Work]

Is there a simple way to lock a form which has been completed so that it can no longer be edited?

[F.onsecaRig]

You can either print to Adobe PDF or use Print Production > Preflight. See here: https://www.firstlegal.com/top-tip-flattening-a-pdf-fillable-form/ 

[Tony At Work]

Thanks

Regards

Tony McEvoy

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[Thom Parker]

Or you can download one of the many free flattening tools. 

There's one here:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Free_Acrobat_Automation_Tools.cfm

[Tony At Work]

Thanks Thom, but I'm not that technical.

I'm on a Mac, I've opened up the Acrobat app package but don't know where to go from there.

Instructions say "The script file can be placed in either the "User" or "App" JavaScript
folder."

But don't know where they are?

Screengrab attached.

 

[Thom Parker]

It's really a pain trying to install the folder level scripts manually. It's especially bothersome that Adobe has provided so little support in Acrobat for this task. You'd think that there would be some kind of standardized methodology built into Acrobat. 

So I know the application JavaScript folder already exists, because Acrobat has it's own folder level scripts. I'd suggest looking down the "Resources" path. Try using the search tool as well.

[try67]

Open the Resources sub-folder and look for JavaScripts within it. If it doesn't exist, create it, and then place the .js file in that folder. Make sure to restart Acrobat for it to take effect.

[try67]

The best way to do that is to digitally sign the form, setting the signature to lock the document.

[Tony At Work]

Tried that, it fails half way through the process?