Saving fill in tax forms

It depends. The creator of the document can set security settings which determine whether you can modify/save/print/etc.

Ira Smilovitz

Try this in Adobe Reader. Open the CA form. Save the form. You can overwrite the one you opened. Open the saved pdf file. It should still be a blank fill-in. Enter data. Save file. The saved file should contain your data. Let us know if this works.

Enter data in at least one field before saving. Save the form. You can

Thanks for the "save a blank copy" tip.

I do that, and then use Nitro Express PDF program, as it let's me save it. Acrobad reader still gives me the "you can't save your data" rubbish.

I don't use Acrobat Reader... so I downloaded the latest version onto my windows laptop. The method I listed worked using Reader. I could enter data and save it once I created my own version of the file.

That only works if the document allows it, not because it's part of Acrobat Reader. Other State of California forms work that way, but I haven't gone to try the tax forms yet. In the past they had been non-save only.

Well I'm confused. Every CA tax form I downloaded, entered data using Acrobat Reader, saved and reopened contained the saved data.

You should also be able to print the form after you have filled it in, I would just print to a pdf formatter such as Primo PDF, it is free as far as I know. That way you would be sure to have a copy of the filled-in form. However, you would not be able to make any changes after that.

in addition to not being able to change the data, when I tried to print to a disk file, the disk file was gibberish. I tried many forms.

Alan, again, thanks!