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Hide the message "You cannot save data entered into this form" in Acrobat

I am pasting a PDF form in my web application. The application allows you to fill in the fields on the form, and when you are finished, click the "Submit" button, which will save everything that you entered into the form. This functionality is working fine.

Unfortunately, Adobe Reader displays a message on top of the built-in control, which says: "Please fill out the following form. You cannot save the data entered in this form . Print the completed form if you would like to copy your entries."

Now I know that Adobe Reader is trying to tell the user. Basically, Adobe Reader will not allow you to save the contents of what you entered on the local hard drive as a new PDF.

However, since we have added the "Submit" button, which will effectively save what they typed in our application, and it works. Therefore, we believe that this message is misleading and wants to delete it.

I am using iTextSharp in .Net for our server-side form automation system. I did not find a way to remove this message from nested forms.

Any help?

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I am sure there is no way around this if you want to continue using Acrobat Reader to display PDF. This message is built into Acrobat Reader, and I don’t know how to override it from the outside.

Sorry, this is a negative answer rather than a positive one.

There are some third-party, free projects that are mainly designed to be viewed in PDF format for .NET. This will allow you to get rid of the message, completely avoiding Acrobat Reader, although it is a lot of work to get rid of the message.

This one is pretty comprehensive.

Another option that I’m sure you already thought was to simply create a form on a web page instead of using PDF. Again, a lot of extra work just to delete the message.

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Adobe Acrobat (Standard and Pro) can modify PDF forms so that users of Adobe Acrobat Reader can fill out + form data (instead of the standard "fill + print").

This is a special option available when saving the PDF word "Save PDF with advanced Reader features" (or similar ... I translated this from German into English).

This cannot be achieved with any software other than Adobe PDF (unless it licensed this feature from Adobe). The technical reason for this is that Adobe uses a digital signature to protect this feature, and you have to agree not to redo the key when you accept Adobe EULA. Acrobat Reader has this key compiled into its binary file, and if it checks the key, it will change the message displayed to the user indicating that the form data of this document can be saved (this will also change its behavior and really save the data).

Maybe this information will help you?

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It was a long time ago, but adobe added the ability to hide this annoying message.

In OSX 11.0.3, Settings> Forms> Always hide the message bar with documents

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Switch to View > Full Screen Mode (short cut on mac is ⌘ L ).

Although this mode hides all menus and scrollbars, I prefer this. IMHO reader uses too much screen real estate on junk)

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