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Printing PDF Form - lines

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March 21, 2019
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Hello Adobe Users

I recently created an interactive PDF using indesign. Primarily using the combo box option to create a fillable form with drop downs.

I want to be able to fill out the form, save the content selected in the dropdown, and then send on to clients without them being able to access the form fields (just to read the selected info)

I did some research that the only way to send on the PDF and not have the form fields accesible is to print to PDF or to flatten the pages. When I do either of these actions little black lines appear on the page where there are empty form fields (the type that appears on photocopied documents). I cannot figure out how to get rid of them or why they are there.

any help would be appreciated!

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Correct answer Bernd Alheit

in indesign

Try this:

In Acrobat delete the dropdowns and create new dropdowns.

GB123Author

Inspiring

Thank you. I've since found that the flattening works or 'signing' the document but then when it is emailed to a mobile device the form data disappears and is left blank!

GB123Author

Inspiring

Thanks, wish we knew this before paying a 12 month subscription to acrobat.

Bernd Alheit

Braniac

In Acrobat Pro you can use an action with this.flattenPages()

GB123Author

Inspiring

Thank you. I've since found that the flattening works or 'signing' the document but then when it is emailed to a mobile device the form data disappears and is left blank?

GB123Author

Inspiring

Hi all - me again.

So i got the form to work after editing each field in acrobat. It looked fine. However, when opening up in acrobat on my mac i notice that there is no option to print to PDF. I want to be able to print to pdf for clients so that it flattens the form fields and doesn't send the fillable boxes to them. I note it has the option to save as PDF but that just sends the live form.

Is there an easy way to flatten the pdf when saving it without having to go through the optimise or flatten preflight steps? Print to PDF seemed to be the easiest and quickest option when using acrobat in Windows, not sure why I can't do it on the Mac.

Thanks

GBC

Bernd Alheit

Braniac

It is not available on a Mac.

try67

Braniac

Flattening is better than printing. Have you tried that? If so, post a screenshot of the issue you're seeing.

GB123Author

Inspiring

Yes I tried flattening and got the exact same problem. Can’t figure out how to upload screenshot but I’ve uploaded it to Flickr here 055A9B3E-B7C1-42C4-882C-D382C89CBACD | Gem Bc | Flickr

try67

Braniac

Weird. Was the base of this form a scanned image or something like that?

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