-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Trying to save a "non-savable" Acrobat Doc

HB,
    If you downloaded it, the document is already on your hard drive and 
therefore, saved.  What's being limited is your ability to save your own 
answers within the document.  If it's important for you to have a record of 
your own answers to these questions, there is a workaround, but it's rather 
convoluted and requires additional software to accomplish.

    Open up the PDF and answer all of the questions.  Next, take an ALT+PRT 
SCR screenshot of the open document, Paste it into Paint and use "Save as" 
to save it as a JPG file in My Documents (give it an easy name you can 
remember).  If the questions span longer than what shows in the window, 
scroll down and repeat as necessary to get the rest (add numbers, 2, 3, 4, 
etc. to the end of the same name you used above).  Once all questions & 
answers are showing in the saved JPGs, run an OCR app (Optical Character 
Recognition) on the image files to convert them back to text.  Finally, open 
up a blank text file and Copy/Paste each of the results into this file to 
combine them, removing any duplicate info in the process.  In the end, 
you'll end up with a text version of the filled out document.

    I never said it would be easy or simple.            :O)

Peace,
GMan
http://reddit.com
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <HandsomeBlck@xxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:27 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Trying to save a "non-savable" Acrobat Doc


> Hello all,
>     I've downloaded a company employment application that can't be saved.
> You can only enter your data, print it, then you must exit (save option is 
> not
> allowed).
>     Is there something I can do to remove the "non-savable" setting? And 
> why
> would a company make a document like this?
> Thanks,
>
> HB 


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