I am trying to figure out how to save the information my users type into .fdf format

Report · Jun 27, 2016

I have fillable forms I made in Adobe 6.0 Professional years ago. I would like to upgrade them to 9.0 Professional. I have everything working except the way my users will be saving (to a server) the .fdf information. I can't figure out how to direct the button on my form to save it to the correct place.

Report · Jun 27, 2016

Will your users be using Acrobat or Reader? What version? Is your server a file server, a web server, something else?

In Response To George_Johnson · Jun 28, 2016

Hi! Thanks for your answer as well!!

Right now everyone has the full 6.0 professional version and I would plan on keeping it that way if we stay with 6.0. If we use the 9.0, I believe I will just have them use the reader. We have a Ctera server (basically a filing cabinet without the programs). Each computer is connected to it as a separate drive (z:). My forms will never go on the internet -- they are strictly internal documents I created to take some of the drudgery out of re-typing in the same information for each form we use. I just can't seem to get the naming correct to get the .fdf info where I want it so everyone can use it.

Report · Jun 27, 2016

You're upgrading to a version that's already obsolete, you know... And there's no real need to upgrade, anyway. If the forms work they should work with newer versions as well.

Also, you can't select for the users where the file will be saved, unless it's all done using a script that saves the file silently, but that requires installing a script on the local machine of each user.

In Response To try67 · Jun 28, 2016

Hi! Thanks for the answer. The reason I was going to upgrade the forms is that they seem to be growing rapidly. I was having trouble reducing the file size in 6.0 professional - I kept getting an error 43 when trying to save it for the reduction (was 32 kb in 2005 and grew to 96,000 kb -- not sure why). We save the info via .fdf files instead of saving the whole .pdf. There four forms that the basic .fdf info goes into. When I did a test run with 9.0 Professional, my save button didn't work like it used to. That's why I had the initial question about saving to .fdf. My office staff is used to a certain naming convention (WO#69990DATED6-28-2016CUSTOMERNAME). I was trying to be consistent for them.