Help... Using Adobe please

[terrybullwon]

Guys i am trying to fill a form out using Adobe reader how do i do this?

Sorry complete rookie with this

Cheers James

[Jamo]

The key's in the name, Adobe Reader :mischeif:

Seriously you'd have to print the form out unless you have a PDF editor or convert the document to word.

I think someone posted up an online editor

[Nuvo]

You *can* complete PDF forms using Acrobat Reader, I've done it myself. What do you need to know?

[terrybullwon]

Just need to fill it in, rather than printing it off and sending it snail mail

[Nuvo]

You just click in the blank fields and type in your text. There's nothing more to it than that.
Attach the file here if it isn't personal and I'll take a quick look at it if you like?

[Jamo]

I've tried in Adobe Acrboat version 9, document won't accept text.

I'll have to look at the permissions probably restricted if it's anything like my company

[terrybullwon]

Thanks for the offer Nuvo, Jamo checked it out for me, its not happening. Bring on the school boy jokes for days now

[Nuvo]

Just to clarify, it really depends on how the form is designed. If it has text boxes embedded in then you will be able to enter text using Acrobat Reader. If it's just a plain PDF then you won't be able to do this. I'm guessing you have a 'flat' PDF?

If you have a flat PDF you can possibly use the "touch up" tool in Adobe Acrobat to achieve this.

There is also the possiblity of recovering the document to its native format (e.g., an MS word document). I can do this successfuly in most cases.

[Greg_S]

Yeah it is possible, providing the the document has been rendered to take text input