Ability to fill in PDF's on ipad

Im a fan of Adobe Professional designer, where I can make interactive PDF forms. Im in the same boat, I'd like to use these forms on an Ipad. So far I have two apps that work..

Goodreader, which allows you to annotate your PDFs. The other is Forms Tools. This allows you to create a template over an existing PDF and create field. If it had pull down box or radio button optins, it would be better, but so far seems to be the best.

I am a Realtor looking for this as well. This apps seems to be exactly what I was looking for, can edit forms including secured forms such as the Florida Realtors provides.

Also can sign on the screen with a pen & email a flattned copy out.

VERY NICE app

"I was looking for the exact same thing and found that "PDF Expert" was perfect.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pdf-expert-fill-forms-annotate/id393316844?mt=8"

I too can't say enough good about PDF Expert (and I have GoodReader and iAnnotate and a ton of note-taking apps).

Text and hand written annotations, underlining, highlighting and strikeouts, and signature capability, along with DropBox integration, in a really clean interface that's a pleasure to use.

With so much of my workflow centering around PDFs, this app is one of my favorites.

PDF Form Tools is the only one that let you add \ remove photo into your form.

It is the best if you want graphic-rich forms to be filled.

Great Forum!

I found an app to do exactly what most of you are describing here. It is called DocAS Lite (free version) that allows you to annotate, type within the PDF form to fill it out, record a speaker note and play it back, slide pannel to rest your palm; add notes like post or sticky note to the document. I find it basic but cool and most of all free!

I don't need to print a form just filled in the required info, signed and send it back to the requestor. Save trees!

Mish

I found a new app called PDF Quick Sign that allows you to fill PDF forms and to sign and annotate PDFdocuments. It's a really nice one and has the support of Dropbox which is crucial.

Now the app is called PDF Forms: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pdf-forms-annotate-fill-sign/id479202541?mt=8

Will iAnnotate fill out forms? I noticed the same problem when I am on my Mac Preview will let me fill in the forms but when I download that same form and open it with iAnnotate on my iPad it will not let me fill in the form? I had read that iAnnotate will let you do this but I can't seem to make it work. Did I just waste $10?

Pdf Expert is great but I believe on the iOS, Apple will not allow javascript to run from within a document, which certain form functions such as a "submit form" button require.

http://blog.epdoc.com/2010/05/ipad-spells-end-of-document-innovation.html

"3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).

In fact the rules are even more stringent because the only built-in interpreter is Javascript, and it is only available from within Webkit, and you can't use it to manipulate your own document object model (DOM). Meaning the only content you are allowed to script is HTML. That means other interactive document formats are just plain verbotten.

There are some pretty reasonable and popular document formats out there that are not HTML. PDF and Excel spreadsheets are but two examples. PDF actually supports interactivity in several ways, including embedding Javascript (a basic use is to do the math in PDF forms) and 3D. The forms Javascript is an older variation that is not compatible with the Apple-provided interpreter (you can't really update 10 year old documents nor call Adobe lazy for not doing so). Even if it were, the Javascript has to bind to a native DOM, and Apple's Javascipt interpreter does not allow this.

Apple Preview supports a subset of PDF but does not support embedded Javascript. Rule 3.3.2 forbids an application from supporting PDF with Javascript. This is really too bad, because I could have seen the iPad as being a great, portable platform for using PDFs with rich forms entry and calculations."

This is really too bad

My needs are pretty basic, no JavaScript concerns, just simple filling of fields in various PDF forms. PDF Expert is perfect for me as I travel extensively for work and dont want to have to drag my laptop out every time I need to send a completed form.

I contacted PDF Expert, they esponded straight away
I haven't tried this yet, should work

"Dear Mine.Eye,

Thank you for contacting us.

PDF Expert does support some Java script in Acro PDF forms. Here is the list of supported methods.

<a href="http://helpspot.readdle.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=66">link</a>

As for the submit functionality, at present PDF Expert supports sending the PDF form over email and sending FDF or HTML data from the form.

Please let me know if you need any further assistance."

The PDF Expert works perfectly fine. And we've checked the digital signatures and JS validation. All is good. Thumbs up.

Also worth mentioning that Adobe released an updated Reader mobile recently which is also capable of filling PDF forms (finally!)

And if you are looking how to store and process the PDF forms, import them into document management system or design new forms this product (PDF SharePoint Forms) can also be worthy to consider:

http://www.pdfsharepoint.com/pdf-forms-on-ipad-and-android-tablets/

So you can have your forms in Microsoft SharePoint on server side and PDF forms in PDF Expert or Adobe Reader on iPad

Thanks for the info mine.eye - I have PDF expert and it works for filling in forms, but like you said non of my calculations work :-(

I have names getting auto filled from other fields, math calculations, and other logic so people don't have to re-type the same info over and over... Too bad that just became obsolete :-(

In response to Mine.Eye's post recently, it should be noted that he referenced a post from May 2010. Apple has revised section 3.3.2 of their agreement but I'm not sure it is going to make any difference (ios_program_standard_agreeement_20120611.pdf).

3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple's built-in WebKit framework, provided that such scripts and code do not change the primary purpose of the Application by providing features or functionality that are inconsistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted to the App Store.

So this still leaves me wondering- can a PDF reader make use of embedded Javascript? A condensed summary of what I'd like to do from an iPad or iPhone is:

Create a PDF with fillable form data.

Have the user fill the data fields.

It would be nice to also allow the user to save the form before submitting.

Submit the data to a server.

Is this now possible via the revised agreement? The fact that people still seem to be having issues make me think it's just a pipe dream.