Adobe reader 8 . type into forms ?

[Graham]

Adobe reader 8 . type into forms ?

Am i doing something silly .. ive downloaded a document

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ifi/licensing/classes/amateur/applications/ofw306.pdf

which on the page prop's says form fields filling allowed ... but
cannot access the fields to type into .click the mouse over them and
nothing happens .. is there something on reader i have to set up ?

just using the std adobe 8 free download , win xp pro fully upto
date .

tnx

G ..

 

[Newbie Coder]

You have to print the form & send it to this address:

Amateur Radio Licensing
Ofcom Contact Centre
Riverside House
2a Southwark Bridge Road
London SE1 9HA

Acrobat Reader is just that, a reader. The writer you would be able to type
in

 

[Graham]

You have to print the form & send it to this address:

Amateur Radio Licensing
Ofcom Contact Centre
Riverside House
2a Southwark Bridge Road
London SE1 9HA

Acrobat Reader is just that, a reader. The writer you would be able to type
in

Ok tnx for that, i thought you just could not save a document but had
some usefull functions like form filling ?

G ..

 

[Newbie Coder]

Graham,

No, orry you don't have that feature unfortunately

Have fun

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Adobe reader 8 . type into forms ?

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Adobe reader 8 . type into forms ?

No way Ray. It's a reader only.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Ok tnx for that, i thought you just could not save a document but had
some usefull functions like form filling ?

You need the PRO version of Acrobat, which is one of TWO versions, the
other being the "Standard" version.

Neither is cheap.

 

[John K.Eason]

*From:* Uncle Grumpy <[email protected]>



No way Ray. It's a reader only.

Adobe Reader 8 (and earlier Reader versions back to at least v5, which is
the earliest I have here) is perfectly capable of allowing you to type
into fields on PDF forms and print the result. *However* the PDF file has
to have form fields on it in the first place. - The OFCOM form mentioned
above doesn't!

Regards
John ([email protected]) Remove the obvious to reply...

 

[Graham]

Adobe Reader 8 (and earlier Reader versions back to at least v5, which is
the earliest I have here) is perfectly capable of allowing you to type
into fields on PDF forms and print the result. *However* the PDF file has
to have form fields on it in the first place. - The OFCOM form mentioned
above doesn't!

Regards
John ([email protected]) Remove the obvious to reply...

Ok John

Thanks very much for that reply, I thought you could type but not
save ... seems that even as the document says you can in the
'props' ... the document is not formatted correctly in the first
place ?

tnx - G ..

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Adobe reader 8 . type into forms ?

Am i doing something silly .. ive downloaded a document

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ifi/licensing/classes/amateur/applications/ofw306.pdf

which on the page prop's says form fields filling allowed ... but
cannot access the fields to type into .click the mouse over them and
nothing happens .. is there something on reader i have to set up ?

just using the std adobe 8 free download , win xp pro fully upto
date .

tnx

G ..

Only if the document is question was specifically designed to be a
"fillable" PDF form could one do as you suggest, using a compatible
version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The form at the link you provided is
*not* of the "fillable" variety.


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[Jaymon]

I have removed the adobe reader in favor of the Foxit PDF reader, its small
& quick, should allow writhing to any PDF file too..
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Cheers
j;-j

 

[Falcon]

I have removed the adobe reader in favor of the Foxit PDF reader, its small
& quick, should allow writhing to any PDF file too..
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Be aware that whatever you write using Foxit only shows up in Foxit.
If you look at a Foxit modified document with Adobe you will not see
the changes made. Printing from Foxit prints the changes but if you
send a softcopy of the modified PDF file to someone and they look at
it with Adobe, which is most likely, they will not see your
modifications. I have not ponyed up the $100 for their editor but
that might be different from the basic $40 reader.

 

[Lou]

No way Ray. It's a reader only.

Not only are you usually grumpy, in this case you are also wrong. You
can fill in forms and save the changes provided the document has been
created to allow filling in the form.

Lou

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Not only are you usually grumpy, in this case you are also wrong. You
can fill in forms and save the changes provided the document has been
created to allow filling in the form.

I stand corrected. My apologies to the OP.

I just installed Acrobat 8 Standard and Acrobat 8 Reader.

Now I'm up to date.

But I'm STILL grumpy <smirk>

 

[John K.Eason]

Ok John

Thanks very much for that reply, I thought you could type but not
save ... seems that even as the document says you can in the
'props' ... the document is not formatted correctly in the first
place ?

I suspect that the flag to allow entries in form fields is in the
document whether any form fields actually exist or not. If there aren't
any it doesn't matter which way the flag's set!

Quite a lot of UK government PDF forms are constructed with proper form
fields in them now, for instance the ones for inheritance tax at
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/cto/pa1.htm#3, where they provide both versions.
The first one has to be printed out and then filled in like the OFCOM
one, whereas the second one can be filled in directly on the PC and
printed, but not saved with the entered data.

Regards
John ([email protected]) Remove the obvious to reply...

 

[Graham]

Only if the document is question was specifically designed to be a
"fillable" PDF form could one do as you suggest, using a compatible
version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The form at the link you provided is
*not* of the "fillable" variety.

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Hay man its cool as our buddies say over there on the west coast you
know the one who lives in llanrhystud well its on the west
coast ? ... it was just the ofcom form ..

 

[Guest]

Readiris Pro, which came with my HP Laserjet Printer , apparently, allows
typing into pdf's
I havent loaded the CDs to verify.