Publishing a Form
When you publish a form, you assign it Published status, which means that no changes can be made to the final design of the form. When you publish a form, ABBYY FormDesigner automatically checks your form to ensure it is machine-readable and gives it a unique form identifier.
To publish a form, use the Publish Form command (File → Publish Form). Published forms are read-only. All the form identifier elements are assigned a unique numerical value (the same for all the form identifiers of a given form) and the form's status changes from Edited to Published.
Publishing a Form with Warnings
When publishing, a form is checked to ensure its machine-readability. If the program detects that your form is not machine-readable, the Publish Form with Warnings dialog box will be opened. Use this dialog box to make your form machine-readable or to publish your form in spite of the warnings.
Important!Using a form that is not machine-readable may result in poor recognition quality!
The Publish Form with Warnings dialog box shows the report about all failures to comply with the machine-readability requirements.
| Button | Description |
| Publish Anyway | Publishes your form ignoring its non-compliance with the machine-readability requirements. |
| Edit Form | At the bottom of the window, a report is displayed showing any errors detected when checking the form. Use this report to correct the errors and make your form machine-readable. |
Editing a Published From
To make changes to a Published form, select the Save Editable Copy As... command on the File menu. ABBYY FormDesigner will prompt you to save the form under a different name before you can make any changes to its design. The status of the form with a new name will change from Published to Draft, and the values of the form identifiers will be set to 0.
We recommend publishing your forms once you have completed their design. This will help track any changes you make to the finished forms and avoid printing forms which look very similar but are in fact different.
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