Troubleshoot ‘Cannot Save Form Information PDF’ or ‘Can Only Save Blank Copy of This Form’ Issue

In a PDF file all the content is captured in the form of an electronic image that a person can navigate, view, print or forward to someone else. A PDF file can contain one or more image. Moreover, one can also create forms in PDF. One of the most common issues people face while saving a PDF form is Cannot Save Form Information. Most probably, this issue is faced by a user when the form creators do not convert their PDF’s into fillable forms or they intentionally design a form that cannot be edited, filled or saved. Therefore, in this blog, we are going to discuss a perfect solution to open, edit and save the PDF form. First, let us understand the different issues faced by users related to saving information in PDF forms.

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“My college professor sent me MCQ test in PDF file format. I finished all the question and when I was saving the file a message popped up that was ‘ Adobe Acrobat reader can only save a blank copy of this form ’. At that time I just saved it and emailed this PDF file to my professor. But when my professor received and opened that PDF file it was blank nothing was saved. Now, I have to send it again to my professor with all the answers filled in a PDF file format only. So, please suggest me how can I save all the answers filled in that MCQ test? Suggest me an instant and reliable solution!”

“I have to deal with the number of PDF forms daily that I download from my organization’s websites. But when I fill all the details of the form and tries to save the form, unfortunately, I am not able to save the form & display Cannot Save Form Information in Adobe PDF. I can only save the blank copies of the forms that are of no use to me. There is any simple and reliable solution using which I can edit and save the PDF forms?”

 

Why a User Prefer PDF File Format over Other File Formats?

PDF is one of the most widely used document formats across the world. There are many reasons why people choose PDF file format over the other file formats. Some of the reasons are discussed below:

• PDF’s documents format is maintained when it shared from one system to another.
• The file size of a PDF file is small as compared to other file formats.
• It is possible to protect a PDF file having sensitive information by adding the password to it.
• Works on most of the operating systems that are being used like Windows, Mac etc.
• In PDF documents it is easy to integrate non-text elements like images, hyperlinks etc.

Fix ‘Cannot Save Form Information’ & “Adobe Acrobat Reader Can Only Save a Blank Copy of This Form “

To resolve the issue ‘Cannot Save Form Information’ or one can follow the steps given below:

1. First, you have to open the PDF form which you want to save

2. Now, you have to click in an interactive field and then check that the message ‘You cannot save data typed into this form. Please Print your completed form if you would like a copy for your records.’ is still appearing or not

3. This message appears on your system as you are using Adobe Reader to open PDF form. Instead of this, you have to open that PDF form with Acrobat

4. Now, to open it with Acrobat close the document first

5. After this, right-click on the document’s icon. You will see a pop window showing Open with Adobe Reader, below this you will see an option Open with Acrobat

6. Click on Open with Acrobat option you will be able to open and enter the information in the PDF form.

However, with this manual solution, a user will not be able to save the form information. For this, it is advised to a user to switch to an instant and reliable solution vy SysTools.
To save a PDF form one has to follow the steps given below:

1. First, download and install the tool on your system. After this, launch the tool on your system

2. Now, you have to open the PDF form. For this, you have to click on the File menu and then click on Open PDF document option

3. Browse the PDF form and select it from the location where it is saved then click on the Open button

4. Now, you will see that the PDF form will be loading. After the completion of the loading process, it will be displayed on your screen
5. You will see that the fields that are to be filled are automatically highlighted by the software
6. Now, you have to fill all the information and then click on the Save as PDF button to save your filled PDF form

7. After this select the destination where you want to save your filled PDF document
8. Once the file is successfully saved at the location selected by you then a message will be prompted. After this, click on the OK button
9. With this utility, you can also Export data to save PDF form as FDF format.
10. For this, you have to click on the Export data button after opening the PDF form in the software and filling it completely

11. After this, you have to select the location where you want to save your exported data in FDF files
12. Now, after the successful completion of the export process, a message will be prompted. Click on the OK button
13. Finally, close and exit the software

Conclusion

There are many users who are not able to save PDF form. Therefore, we came up with this blog to resolve all the issues like” Cannot Save Form Information in Adobe PDF” or Adobe Acrobat Reader can only save a blank copy of this form” faced by people when they want to save PDF forms. In the above section, an efficient and reliable solution is discussed using which a user can open, fill and save the PDF form into PDF file format seamlessly.

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