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 _javascript_s 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 ! !
!
I hope Adobe is planning a FIX
for this outrageous problem. I simply used the security Adobe provided
in the way suggested in their documentation. I am racking up
ALOT of displeased customers.
TO CLARIFY:
I checked the security option
"No Adding or Changing Form Fields" in the STANDARD
SECURITY settings dialog box in Acrobat 5. This was done to prevent
users from making any changes. The applications documentation phrases
it this way, "6. Choose an option from the Changes Allowed
menu to describe the kind of changes you'll allow users to make on
the PDF document:"
Again, as I did not want to allow
users to make any changes, I selected this security option.
Choosing this option does NOT imply that the _javascript_ linking I use
for navigation will not function. And, in fact, Adobe recommends using
_javascript_s with form fields for linking purposes elsewhere in the
documentation!
We tested the CD-ROM thoroughly
with Acrobat 5 and it worked perfectly. So we published thousands.
With the release of version 6 our CD-ROM navigation no longer
works!!!
THIS IS REAL PROBLEM with
version 6. Will Adobe be fixing it in a future release?
