In Browser .PDF forms wont' work

Filling out PDF forms only works if the PDF was created and saved as a fillable form; if not, then it won't work. Do you know for a fact that these PDFs were designed to be fillable? What forms are you trying to fill-in and submit?

Okay, let's just assume for the sake of argument that you can't submit the form through the browser? Can you submit it any other way, say fax or email, or is that prohibited?

As for the problem itself, if you have the Adobe Reader Plug-In installed, can you do a Save As… to save what you entered? Try that and then open that saved document to see if all of your entries are still there (don't close the browser window or tab).

I am litterally going insane and on day two of this.

Don't do that; therapy is expensive.

Hmmm…then that's a puzzle. I'd try to 'downgrade' to the previous version of Safari (the one that came on the Snow Leopard install DVD) and see if that solved it. Otherwise, I'm at a loss. I'll try asking someone who knows more than me and see if they can provide a solution.

Okay, here's an idea suggested by a Level 9 person that I should have thought of, but I've been up more than 12 hours already, so the mind gets a bit fuzzy after awhile.

In Safari (or even Firefox), try changing the User Agent to IE (version 7, 8, and/or 9; try them all if one doesn't work), since odd things like this usually happen when stupid webmasters design sites for Windows IE users, rather than using Web Standards.

Talk about frustration with Apple... Iv'e converted 40% of my computers to Windows XP & 7, record profits for Apple, record setbacks for Apple users. 😟

had the same problem but found a workaround. If you have created your form in Adobe Acrobat Professional X you will have to first choose file and then save as your form and select reader extended pdf and select enable additional features. The will allow your users to save a copy of the form as well as the data in the fields. once this has been done you simple email it to yourself and open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader on the iPad then select the printer and and select print on the iPad. But the key to making this all work the form must forst be ceated in Adobe Acrobat Professional version X or greater. I have tried this and it works fine, it will also enable your form users to save the form and print to any printer with the saved field data. Hope this helps. I contacted Adobe and they say that they do not provide any support for the airprint feature. I suspect that the print protocol for the field data created in Adobe is not recognized by the airprint application. But if they investigate why we are able to print it only after saving it in reader extended pdf followed by enable additional features they should be able to resolve this issue by examining the difference between both print protocols. Hope this helps. If anyone out their has found a better way please let me know.

Rick

We're dealing with this exact issue - I blame Adobe for this sort of issue, but I would like to know if anyone has found a way for people to fill out and submit a PDF on the Mac. Currently, Safari submits the PDF, but then hangs; Firefox won't open the inline PDF, and since I need to send request parameters to the PDF, saving the PDF loses all that info, making that a non-starter; Chrome does the same thing as Firefox (Mac OS 10.7.2 and 10.6.8). Firefox and IE on windoze work fine, but we want all our users to be able to fill out AND submit the PDF.

Any help would be most appreciated!