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Can you provide more information on exactly what Adobe Reader Extensions / Usage Rights are?

Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions enables PDF forms designers to extend the use of Adobe Reader to allow for any advanced functionalities that they put into their forms, such as the ability to save or submit a PDF form. The ability to extend Adobe Reader this way is only possible using Adobe's products.

Unfortunately, it is not possible for products like Quick PDF Library, or any other non-Adobe owned product, to either create PDFs with extended usage rights or modify the extended usage rights on existing PDFs that were created with Adobe LiveCycle or Acrobat 9.

In addition, if you modify a PDF -- in any way, shape or form, with any none-Adobe product -- that has had extended usage rights applied to it, it will invalidate the extended usage rights, resulting in an error message similar to the one listed below popping up when you open the document.

This document contained certain rights to enable special features in Adobe Reader. The document had been changed since it was created and these rights are no longer valid. Please contact the author for the original version of this document.

To find out if your document has had extended usage rights applied to it open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader and use the Ctrl+D shortcut to open Document Properties window and then click on the Security tab and look for the below error message to be listed at the bottom of the window.

To create a copy of the document without any extended usage rights, do as the message recommends and choose File > Save a Copy. After you've done this, you should be able to work with the document using products other than Adobe Reader/Acrobat without experiencing any issues.