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Fillable PDF Forms in Browser (clear data)

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jdemmi

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Jun 6, 2001
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Ok this is kind of weird and I need some help.

We have a PDF document (form) which contains so "fillable fields". The user will navigate through a web site and open the form. He/she can then fill out the form and print the filled out form and cannot save changes but can save a blank copy of the form. This is all cool and works properly (as expected).

However, once the user fills out the form, regardless of whether they print the form or not, the data entered will remain in the form for that user (data is stored in user's internet cache) until the user either reboots his pc or manually kills acrord32.exe.

Even though the user exits the web page and all browser sessions acrord32.exe is left running in the background.

What I need is to either

1. Force acrord32.exe to close when the user exits the browser
or
2. Clear the (temp) stored form data when the user closes the form.

Is there any way to do either of these? Have any of you ever seen this behavior?

-- Jason
"It's Just Ones and Zeros
 
Anyone?

-- Jason
"It's Just Ones and Zeros
 
Jason,
You can add a button to the form for the user to click that will reset all of the fields to blank. Using the standard acrobat form buttons.

The other option would be to use some script to revert the file to its previously saved state.

I am sure there are other ways to clear the temp file - but you are talking about browser settings then. IE has a Temporary Internet Files Setting: Check for newer versions of stored pages: "Automatically". I have changed my setting to "Every visit to the Page". I don't know if you can control that programmatically . . .

samaba
 
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