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I've got Acrobat Pro 8 and Word 2003.
I've got a form in Word creating using form fields. What I want to do is convert this document to a "fill in" PDF form automatically. In other words, replacing Word's form fields with Acrobat's form fields.
I can't seem to find any way to do this using Acrobat's integration with Word. Anybody know of a way?
Is there any reason you want it to be a pdf? Since Word can lock files as well, such that you can only fill in form fields – Ivo Flipse – 2009-07-23T20:02:21.133
Acrobat reader is more likely to be available to the users of the document than MS Word. – boden – 2009-07-23T20:13:01.090
Thank you MS for Word viewer: http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=DC011320141033&CTT=5&Origin=HA011683331033
– Ivo Flipse – 2009-07-23T20:27:36.640but if you want to save them the hassle, you are correct... On the other how would anyone not having Word (or being able to open it) be interested in filling in his form fields? – Ivo Flipse – 2009-07-23T20:28:28.183
1This isn't a terribly unique problem. Often times documents need to be exchanged in a common format. PDF is extremely prevalent just about everyone on every platform has the necessary software already installed. The problem is that you can't really source a form in PDF, you need a word processor of some sort. If you don't somehow "link" form fields from the Word document to form fields in the resultant PDF, then every change to the Word document means that you have to recreate the form fields in the PDF. – boden – 2009-07-24T16:19:20.907