With Adobe® LiveCycle® Enterprise Suite 4 (ES4), you can enable interactive features in Adobe PDF
documents, features that were previously available only through
Adobe® Acrobat® Professional and Acrobat
Standard. When these features are enabled using Adobe® LiveCycle®
Reader® Extensions 10, users can interact with the document by using
Adobe® Reader® 7.0
or later.
When you use rights-enabled PDF documents, your organization
can do the following:
Capture data intelligently, which means that the data
in the form fields automatically updates the appropriate databases
and applications.
Control document security through electronic and digital
signatures and encryption.
Apply usage rights to documents that have been policy-protected
by Adobe® LiveCycle® Rights
Management.
If users open a PDF document using Adobe Reader 7.0 or later,
the features that correspond to the usage rights are immediately
available. However, if users open the document with an earlier version
of Adobe Reader or with Acrobat Approval, a message indicates that
they need to download the current version of Adobe Reader to use
all the features in the PDF document. The message also provides
a link to the download page.
You can use the Reader Extensions web application to select the
usage rights that you want Reader Extensions to add to individual
documents or batches of documents. You can also use the programmable
application program interface (API), web services, or watched folders
to set usage rights on documents or batches of documents.
For detailed information about how users can work with comments,
digital signatures, and form data in Adobe Reader, see the documentation
that accompanies Adobe Reader.
