Acrobat Experts

[garethEds]

Afternoon All,

 

Are there any Adobe Acrobat experts here on EduGeek? What I'm after is advice or pointers on how to turn my printed booklets into Acrobat editable booklets. I'll explain a bit more.

 

I have my class/pupil work booklets. I print them every year for the pupils depending on which module they are studying. I'd like to turn them into editable PDF files that can be written into and pasted into etc. For example if a pupil takes a screenshot of a directory structure using Print Screen, I'd like that they can paste it onto a page in the pdf document.

 

I have done editable forms before, but wondered if I could take this further.

 

When the books are finished, the pupils can them email them to me - where I can complete the marking sections.

 

Saving me a fortune on copying.

 

I don't want anyone to do this for me - just for some pointers, books worth buying, websites worth looking at - even a one/one tutorial on the phone (if anyone is that generous).

 

Cheers all - I'm off to search Google now for ideas and pointers as well. I should add that I have Adobe Acrobat CC (V11 I think) on my machine.

 

Gareth

[LosOjos]

You can create forms in Acrobat: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/create-fillable-pdf-forms-acrobat.html

 

However, that's pretty expensive software that your students are unlikely to have at home. I've always been of the school of thought that PDFs aren't meant to be edited (in fact, I save any document as PDF before emailing/uploading it if I don't want anyone changing it), wouldn't Word be a better option here?

[garethEds]

I don't need the pupils to have the software at home do I? Doesn't the Reader let them read and edit forms that have been created in Acrobat?

 

I know pdfs are not meant to be edited.

 

I assume I can lock a Word file down then. I'll look at that.

 

GJE

[LosOjos]

I don't need the pupils to have the software at home do I? Doesn't the Reader let them read and edit forms that have been created in Acrobat?

 

Yes you're right of course!

 

I assume I can lock a Word file down then. I'll look at that.

 

There's not a fat lot of 'locking down' you can do in Word I don't think - you can prevent editing, but it's an on/off setting if memory serves.

 

 

The real problem is the screenshots - I don't believe that's possible with PDF forms, whereas it is of course in Word. Problem with Word is I don't believe you can lock things to editing, so there's always the potential for them to screw it up... and Word doesn't exactly play nice with images anyway at the best of times.

 

I'm not helping, am I?! I'll step away now but keep an eye out for something suitable.

[garethEds]

HI @LosOjos - I had thought of using PowerPoint master slides to lock things down a bit. I just like pdfs.

 

GJE