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convert word fillable form to pdf

Client provided me with word doc that has a fillable form. He wants me to put that on his website as a fillable form. Is there a way to preserve that fill-ability? When I save .doc to .pdf it loses its form functionality. It is a very intense form and I don't want to try and recreate it. Plus, I also don't want to upload a .doc file because we don't want people to be able to modify the form.

Flora Edwards

you can do that with acrobat , but it is not free

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/convert-existing-forms-to-fillable-pdfs.html

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ASKER

I already own Adobe Acrobat IX. What I am trying to do is to not reinvent the wheel. The word doc is a fillable form that is many pages long and has a TON of fields. Is there a way to save that functionality as a pdf that can be uploaded to a website?

Flora Edwards

you cannot do it with free acrobat reader. do you own acrobat professional?

nsitedesigns

ASKER

I own Adobe Acrobat IX.

I want to take an existing word form and save as pdf and upload to website without losing integrity of form.

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GrahamSkan

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ASKER

I did protect form. I then saved as pdf and ftp'd to site. The form lost its functionality. Are you suggesting I keep it as a word doc and not convert to pdf?

GrahamSkan

Yes, that's what I was thinking.

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ASKER

Let me play around with this a bit and get back to you.

victor huang

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HI,

Problem wasn't converting to pdf. Problem was trying to save pdf files that were already online forms to a website and have them retain their form functionality.