Acrobat 8 Professional: Forms - Save As and Date format queries 2

[xxxLizxxx]

Hi Tek Tips,

I have designed a form for a client in Acrobat 8 Professional, and enabled viewing rights in Reader. There will be a lot of people using this form that are not very computer literate, and the client has requested that I do the following:

1. I have set up the date format (in a date-of-birth field) to dd/mm/yy, limited to 8 characters, and a Tool-tip explaining how the date must be written. However, if you enter the date by mistake as 01/01/2001, it will be allowed, and appear as 01/01/20 (instead of coming up with an error message saying the 20 is wrong and it should be 01). I understand that to the form, there's nothing wrong with this date, but is there any way I can get a pop-up box to appear if either '19' or '20' appears as the year, and indicate to the form-filler that they should check what they've entered?

2. They want the user, when the document is opened in Reader, to NOT be allowed the 'Save' feature, but only allow them to 'Save AS', so as not to overwrite the master document, which will be stored in a folder. The information in these forms are of a sensitive nature, so they don't want it getting saved by accident into the master document for anyone to see.

I would be delighted if you were able to give me any ideas on the above.

Kind regards,
Liz

 

[MarcusStringer]

for point one:
I would set up the date to be dd/mm/yyyy that way they can put in either
01/01/2009 or 01/01/09

for the second one:
upload the PDF form to their internet (if they have one) then all they need to do is download it (which keeps the original), they can then straight save it

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[apepp]

...to add...

...in my experience, turning off limited characters and leaving the format as dd/mm/yy allows the user to type a four digit year, acrobat only displays the last two digits entered...

Andrew