Is there any way to open a PDF file which is stored in a sharepoint document library, edit it with a local program (say, Acrobat), and then save it back directly to the sharepoint library? I can open the document easily enough. But, when I go to save it, Acrobat is unable to see the document library or sharepoint at all, for that matter. To complicate this further, I need to use forms authentication for the site, since it is authenticating to an externalLDAP directory. Thanks in advance, ~Greg

Hi Greg, Office200x products can save to sharepoint without any problems. Non-SharePoint aware products, such as AcroBat have problems. A little trick we use is mapping a network drive to a document library in sharepoint. Try this out from a command line: net use S: http://YourSharePointAddress/SomeSite/SomeDocLib/ (This works fine from WinXP/Vista) You can then treat your new "S" Drive like a usual network drive and products like AcroBat will work just fine. Hope this helps.. Cheers, James.

James, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I am using specific ports (http://myserver:1234) to identify my sharepoint site and therefore the net command does not recognize it. I get a system error 67, network name cannot be found. Since this is a forms authenticated site, I'm not sure how the net command would react even if it could find the server. (I suppose I could provide a userid and password when connecting but I'm not sure what domain I would use.) ~Greg

Check this out. Just found this tool today. http://sharepointcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/07/saving-pdf-from-adobe-reader-to.html

I have tried the omtool but I keep getting an 0x80004005 error when I try to open the Sharepoint document lib. There is not spaces or special chars in the url. Adobe Reader 8 was used.I have tried this http://www.specialinvestigations.org/blog/CommentView,guid,1a6f8f2b-55a1-4421-bf11-b1256ea418dc.aspx But whenever I go to edit the PDF I get an error saying A windows sharepoint services compatible application could not be found. Acrobat 9 is installed on the client machine. Any ideas how to get the "edit" feature to work?

One method that always works is to download the file to your client's hard disk; open it in Acrobat; amend it; save it to your hard disk; upload it to the doc lib.Provided you are using the default of overwriting files this will overwrite the existing file with the same name. You will however lose the contents of additional columns.Note: It's probable that you can omit the original download to the hard disk and just open in Acrobat. You will however need imo to save to the hard disk first before getting the file back to the doc lib.

Right, well, the end users do it that way now. But for some reason, that is too much of a hassle. They want to be able to click on it, edit it, save it back to sharepoint without saving it to the local disk first. Like you can do with MS Office documents. Is there a why to edit and save PDFs directly to sharepoint? I have been googling endlessly with not solid solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi! Set your doc library where you store editable PDF files to require Check-Out. Open the file with check-out and make sure that the checkout uses your "Use My Local Drafts Folder". It should open PDF with the Adobe Acrobat, as long as it is installed on the PC you access SharePoint from. Good luck! The deal is that "Use My Local Draft Folder" created a copy of the file "behind the scenes" in the SharePoint Drafts folder under "My Documents" location (by default). Once a draft is created there, OS file association "takes over" to control file opening and correctly uses Adobe Acrobat to deal with it... Hope this will work.

Two things to consider: 1) When using forms based authentication, Microsoft suggests that you turn off client integration for the entire Web app zone in which you use FBA. A lot of desktop apps don't know how to respond to SharePoint when it challenges for log-in credentials to open the document you want to edit. It is a separate session from your browser session, and any app (including Adobe) will not have access to the browser session cookie established by FBA. SharePoint will never authenticate your request to open the document. 2) The client interface that allows launching apps directly from SharePoint is implemented by a little gem called ows.dll, supplied by Microsoft, and which only works with Microsoft client apps. I don't know if the "use local drafts folder" will get around this, but it will not get you around 1) above.

I'm having some similar problems to the posts I see here. My users want to be able to open a PDF from the SharePoint site, add digital signatures then save the file back. Sounds easy right? The problem is they are onlyrunning Office 2003. The handy "check out to local drafts" option only appears if the client has the SharePoint components from Office 2007 installed. My workstation has Adobe Acrobat 8.1, I.E. 7 , and Office 2007. This configuration works fine but my users need Office 2003 for some third party apps. I'mknow installing both will be problematic for them. Without the components Adobe will open the file fine but inserts %20 into the file names instead of spaces so they cannot easily save the file back as there are thousands of files in this directory. We have tested installing only the SharePoint 2007 components on one workstation but my I.T. departments requires an MSI for all installs and it turned out that a custom MSI for this was still around 900Mb. Any ideas/solutions/workarounds? Are we better off sticking witha fileshare? Thanks!

I too would like advice in this area. My organisation has a number of remote sites with low bandwidth. It is envisaged that the only way we can get Sharepoint DM to work effectively for them is tospecifythe destination ofchecked out documents. We want them to be able to specify the location for checked out documents that gets backed up such as a local fileshare. Our fear is that if we don't come up with a solution people will by default check-out documents onto their local hard drive and then not regularly upload them back into Sharepoint. This may mean that the latest versions of documentswill not be backed-up and could easily be lost if their pc suffers a disk failure. As mentioned MS 2007 will help but the organisation is still on MS 2003. We also have non MS software that Office 2007 will not help resolve such Autocad and Microsation CAD products.Any advice?

I'm having some similar problems to the posts I see here. My users want to be able to open a PDF from the SharePoint site, add digital signatures then save the file back. Sounds easy right? The problem is they are onlyrunning Office 2003. The handy "check out to local drafts" option only appears if the client has the SharePoint components from Office 2007 installed. My workstation has Adobe Acrobat 8.1, I.E. 7 , and Office 2007. This configuration works fine but my users need Office 2003 for some third party apps. I'mknow installing both will be problematic for them. Without the components Adobe will open the file fine but inserts %20 into the file names instead of spaces so they cannot easily save the file back as there are thousands of files in this directory. We have tested installing only the SharePoint 2007 components on one workstation but my I.T. departments requires an MSI for all installs and it turned out that a custom MSI for this was still around 900Mb. Any ideas/solutions/workarounds? Are we better off sticking witha fileshare? Thanks! I am having exactly the same problem and the "workaround" is just that, a workaround. Has anybody found a solution?

TTTWe still have the issue. Any news?What workarounds/fixes I've tried:1) DOCICON.XML pdf mapping ( http://www.portalsolutions.net/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=1fef67f0%2D70ca%2D4263%2Db683%2Df10c1958687a&ID=40 ) 2) Reinstalling owssup.dll3) Enabling Require Checkin/Checkout + "Use Local Folder"4) Unchecking "Display PDF in Browser" in Acrobat (http://www.portalsolutions.net/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=1fef67f0%2D70ca%2D4263%2Db683%2Df10c1958687a&ID=40)5) Using sitemanager.aspx to batch checkin6) Adding a "Checked out to" column to help with batch checkins.These steps have only served to alleviate the issue, but not solved it.

Today you have 2 options I know: 1. Use Adobe Acrobat X 2. Use Pdf forms for SharePoint (more info you can read here ) Thanks, Dimitry

Today you have 2 options I know: 1. Use Adobe Acrobat X 2. Use Pdf forms for SharePoint (more info you can read here ) Thanks, Dimitry

i m too suffering with the same issue, any updates plz suggest Vishwanath Mishra Jaypee Group, India

check this http://www.sharepointsharon.com/2010/03/sharepoint-2010-and-adobe-pdf/Vishwanath Mishra Jaypee Group, India