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Leonard,
I would disagree that this is "correct" behavior. It's probably what Adobe intended, but it isn't what I'd expect. When I tell Acrobat not to allow any changes, normal use of language implies that I don't want the "end user" to make any changes. If I put a JS in the doc, then I want the document to do certain things in response to user inputs. I don't want anybody changing that behavior, including Adobe.
Although Acrobat 6 is a great improvement over 5 IMO, Adobe still has some work to do. They need to address the security issues a little more robustly. We need flexibilty, and we need security. So some additional security levels appear to be appropriate. I'm still miffed that they don't allow multiple signature fields of the same name, so that you can sign on multiple pages with a single click. So okay, some doc's should have that level of protection; but it isn't needed for all docs. Same thing could be said of the problem presented in the posts below. Sometimes it's needed, but most of the time a lesser degree of security is desirable. The Federal Reserve uses some serious architecture to protect the enormous amount of money they hold. But I'll bet that somewhere on the premises is a little tin box holding the office petty cash. BOTH levels of security are needed.
And, since Adobe's gotta crank up the IDE to fix that confounded tab-order problem anyway... :-)
Jim Plante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Nov 8, 2003, at 5:08 PM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
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At 6:01 PM -0600 11/7/03, Bruce H. Martinsen wrote:Form fields SECURITY set up in v5 causes BIG PROBS in v6
Using Acrobat v5, I set the security to; "No Adding or Changing Form Fields," to prevent users from messing around. I use Form Felds and javascripts for navigation on a CD-ROM.
Sadly, I just published thousands of CD-ROMs with this setting.
Now with Reader version 6 users can NOT click the Form Fields for navigation. Well ... they can click them -- BUT THE LINKS DON'T WORK AT ALL ! ! !
That is correct.
Acrobat/Reader 6 now fully respects the security settings that you have applied ot your documents, where Acrobat 5 was lax in that regard.
Since a form element can have a JavaScript associated with that could potentially "add or change form fields", and you specifically restricted that feature of the PDFs when security them - any object that can run a JS must be disabled as well.
Although it does indeed cause problems like what you've experienced, it is the correct behavior and I would not expect a fix.
NOTE: this issues has been well known and discussed on this forum (and elsewhere) since June when Adobe first released the 6.0 version.
Leonard
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