Opening Attachments to a PDF with Adobe Reader

[KYJud]

I have created a PDF that has other PDFs as attachments.

All PDFs are Reader Extended.

I can open the attachments using Adobe DC Pro, but cannot do so using Adobe Reader.

I have rummaged around and found some indication that Reader will not open such attachments

Is that true?

If you can open PDF attachments using Reader, what am I doing wrong?

Thank you

[George_Johnson]

Did you test it yourself with Reader? If so, what versions? For what reasons did you Reader-extend the document?

[KYJud]

I just emiled them to my wife's computer. Her Reader is "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC."

I appologize. I stand corrrected.

I can open them, but the banner comes accross the top that says you can not save a filled form.

When I send an attached form by itself (not as an attachment) I can fill it in and save it.

I made the forms Reader Exteded so someone could fill them out and save them.

Again, I appologize.  I ran the same test a few days ago and just remembered the resuls were  not what I wanted.

To ask the question again. Can Reader open the attachements so that the filled fields can be saved?

If it can how do you do it?

[KYJud]

I just forwarded the email I had sent to my wife back to myself with the PDF.

I can open the attachments with both Acrobat DC Pro and  Reader, but I can save the completed form only when it's opened with Acrobat DC Pro.

[Bernd Alheit]

Are the attachments PDF files with form fields?

[KYJud]

Yes.

The idea is designed for a situatuion in which a person  needs to puduce one or more diffeerent forms for a court filing, The main PDF would givve instructions. The user would then open the appropriate attachment (s)  fill in the ineeded infromation, print (which I can not do with Reader0 and save the result (which I can not do with Reader).

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

You can save the attachment to the local disc and fill it.

[KYJud]

To Bernd

Thank you. Thank you Thankyou. Particularly for sticking with the problem after I screwed it up initially and  then went silent for awhile. I'm old, am on  the East Coast and need my ZZZZZs.

Again sorry my initial description of the problem was so misleading.

I'll simply add a caution to the memo that if the user wants to save the completed form she has to save it before  filling it out. Actually that  is peobably a better was to do it anyway.

This solves a huge problem. for me.  I had  anticipated having to send out  two sets of forms. One, the memo with attachments and another being a folder with the memo and separate files. 

Who marks this problem as solved?

John

[2Dackels]

I have created a PDF that has other PDFs as attachments. When I upload this to Dropbox or email this to Web-based email addresses like Yahoo or AOL, the PDF attachments disappear - the main PDF is there but no attachments, even if I open it in Adobe DC. When I email it to Windows Live users, all the attachments are there.
When I attach the PDFs as links instead of attachments, even the main PDF will not open (system shows it has a virus). I have no security on the PDFs. Never had issues with this before. Can't seem to find a solution - please help!

[Bernd Alheit]

Have you compared the file size of the documents?