Acrobat 8 Pro - MASS "Enable User Rights in Adobe Reader"

[Jeff_T...@adobeforums.com]

Our organization recently purchased Acrobat 8 so our users could fill and save PDFs "loan Apps" to to their local Desktop. I understand that you need to open each form individually and then enable user rights under advanced and this will re-save the PDF with user rights enabled. We have about 400 forms! Is there a way to MASS enable user rights in these forms? Thanks!!

[Aandi_...@adobeforums.com]

Yes, but not with Acrobat Professional. By design. Adobe sell a
big-ticket product, LiveCycle Reader Extensions, for people with this
need.

Aandi Inston

[graffiti]

Yes. Unfortunately, Acrobat 8 was made to enable these rights but, not for the volume of use you're talking about.

[Damien...@adobeforums.com]

I'm with Jeff. I understand they have more advanced products but surely you could set this as default, quite a painful process to enable.

Cheers
Damien

[Mar...@adobeforums.com]

but surely you could set this as default,

default when? saving? You wouldn't want to do that.

[Sabian_...@adobeforums.com]

VBScripting won't work and there are no Acrobat SDK APIs that allow this either. If you have macro recording software (a real security risk!) to navigate through all of the dialogs and file naming then you could probably do it, but is it really worth the risk?? It would be an unwieldy "hack" and I believe that if you did that it also be against the End User License Agreement for Acrobat.

Sabian

[stefano...@adobeforums.com]

Not more then 500 pdf.

[Damien...@adobeforums.com]

MarkATS,
Actually yes default when saving yes you would. I am designing a heap of forms for users to fill in electronically and save. I would like this to be enabled by default.

Cheers
Damien

[Mar...@adobeforums.com]

The EUAL limits you to 500 forms, so having this as default would put you past that limitation very quicky.

Like others have said, Livecycle Reader Extensions Server is for you.