I have a problem opening Adobe Acrobat documents. If I do through using Preview, I can fill in the pdf form but nothing happens when I try to submit the form. Please help
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
IT still does not work.
I am referring to forms that one receives, say from a government department asking one to respond to questions. The rest of the form has my information pre-filled based on what they know about me already. At the end of the form, I must agree to the terms and conditions and then click on submit. Clicking "submit" does not do anything.
I Use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
MY wife uses a Windows based laptop and she has Adobe Acrobat 8. When I use her laptop, it works.
please help.
Not sure if you have access to an official copy of Adobe Acrobat; or one
of the applications the author used, because that is a most certain means.
Even then, some forms cannot be altered; permissions to fill blanks, aside.
•Preview for Mac: Fill out and sign PDF forms in Preview - Apple Support
support.apple.com/kb/PH20226?locale=en_US
Sep 27, 2016 - Fill out a PDF form. Open the PDF form in Preview. Click a field or a line
in the form. A text annotation box automatically appears. Type your text in the field.
•How to fill an uneditable PDF form in OS X - CNET
If a PDF form is static, you can still fill it out without having to print and do so by hand.
•Fill PDF forms (Acrobat 8.0 on Windows or Mac OS) - Support ...
... Fill PDF forms (Acrobat 8.0 on Windows or Mac OS) ... Support Knowledgebase
Fill PDF forms ... settings to Allowed before you can fill the PDF form on ...
adobe.com/support/techdocs/333232.html
•Filling in PDF forms in Adobe Acrobat or Reader
> Filling in PDF forms. Filling in PDF forms. Search. ... see Fill out your PDF form.
Save form, ... or Acrobat DC/Acrobat Reader DC > Preferences (Mac OS).
helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/filling-pdf-forms.ht
Other ideas via links appear in this search result; untested as-is:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+fill+pdf+forms+on+mac&ia=web
Not sure if your macOS Help Viewer could find a suitable answer to doing this
with applications included in the OS; or if you'd be expected to buy an App.
In any event...
Good luck & happy trails! 🙂
I created a simple test, fillable form with submit/reset buttons using the last release of LibreOffice. These form buttons are inoperable in Preview (Sierra 10.12.1), but work correctly in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Build: 15.20.20042.205528.
Rather than whip the dead horse in Preview's PDF support, just use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, and let your PDF work as it was designed.
Adobe LiveCycle Designer, to my knowledge, does not use Adobe's AcroJS form scripting syntax, and uses its own XFA syntax. Since ALD is a Windows exclusive product, it, or the designer, may have introduced syntax into the PDF forms content that restricts full form functionality to Adobe Windows products.
That is my best guess, as your PDF sure doesn't work on the Mac.
One last thought. Open the PDF on the Mac in Acrobat Reader DC. In the Reader Preferences panel, click on the JavaScript category, and ensure that it is enabled. See if that makes a different in form submission with Reader DC.
While I've tried to avoid using those PDF forms, usually a fairly recent Adobe Reader
version has worked OK; if the settings are corrected to see if that allows you to add
content to the form. Some kinds of forms allow you to use a secure browser to fill.
In any event...
Good luck & happy trails! 🙂
sekhasja wrote:
IT still does not work.
I am referring to forms that one receives, say from a government department asking one to respond to questions. The rest of the form has my information pre-filled based on what they know about me already. At the end of the form, I must agree to the terms and conditions and then click on submit. Clicking "submit" does not do anything.
I Use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
MY wife uses a Windows based laptop and she has Adobe Acrobat 8. When I use her laptop, it works.
please help.
I am unclear if this is online through a browser or you have access to the download and it is sitting on your Desktop?
If this is Desktop
You can try PDFpen https://smilesoftware.com/pdfpen
The best money I ever spent on software.
Last option if you cannot get it to work through the browser:
download/print the form
fill in required fields and sign (or whatever)
scan back in
attach as a .pdf and send it back
(more often than not, these fillable forms do not work with a Mac as the software creator automatically optimizes them for use on a Windows machine and/or the webmaster has designed the website to work best with Internet Explorer, etc - all things beyond your control).
This is one of the items found in my search result posted above
and read about it; worth the 'free trial' to test before spending $5. 🙂
When you open your PDF in Acrobat Reader DC, go to the Security tab on the Properties panel. What does “Can be Opened by:” show? Is there a restriction, or All versions of Acrobat?
It is all versions of Acrobat
In the Finder, click on the PDF, and then press option+command+i to Show Inspector. On that panel's More info section, what is shown for the Content Creator, and the Encoding software?
Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 9.0
I CANNOT FILL IN PDF FORMS AND SUBMIT THEM
