[PB2K]

Hi, because I receive all kinds of nice digitally signable forms from various organisations, I decided to buy the application that creates them.

The Adobe website offers this utility named adobe acrobat 6 professional that offers to "easely create, fill in and submit electronic forms".

Now I have been trying frantically for weeks to create a PDF-form that has some checkboxes to check and a signaturefield to digitally sign. BUT !

The people who I send these files cannot sign it !

To sign a PDF you need to save it and Adobe Acrobat 6 Reader has no option to save PDF's. i have been sending emails to Adobe about this issue and they say it is not possible to save with Reader.

Then why did they offer me this program in the first place, you can't expect everyone to buy Acrobat 6 Pro just to enable the sign option do you?? I think they got my question wrong because it MUST be possible to sign with Reader 6 ! Adobe says I should upgrade to version 7 pro.

[cpac]

My understanding is that the reason to create .pdf forms is so that people can type in their answers/responses, and print the results for easy mailing back to you.

If they happen to be in OS X, they can use it's built-in ability to save .pdfs to save filled-out forms.

Otherwise, they have to do the print & snail-mail thing, or you need to send them something else (a link to a web page form, an editable document form, etc.)
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More to the point - I'm not sure I've even seen a "digitally signable" form.

Have one you'd care to link to or forward?

[PB2K]

PDF's that can be signed by a digital signature are quite common here. In Reader you can create a signature that can be attached to PDF-forms written in Acrobat Professional 6 or 7.

Professional 7 has lots of digital form tools, while Professional 6 offered this option on the advertisements as well. I quoted a piece of it in my previous post.

[zzarg]

acrobat is the most stupid, bloated piece of over-hyped nonsense out there.
I've yet to come across a situation where it has been the best, most useful way of distributing anything - in most cases clients go back to Word docs or plain HTML pages very quickly.
Until we get a federated digital signature mechanism accepted by Govt and Big Business it's just going to remain a nerdy toy that Adobe can rake $ in from the unsuspecting.