Adobe

Post by **Tracey** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:23 pm

I have a form i have to fill in. It came to me as some often do as an Adobe pdf file. Can someone tell me how i fill in the form on my pc ?. Sounds silly but its not that straigh forward for me

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:35 pm

Hi Tracey
As far as I'm aware one of the features of .pdf docs is that you can't edit them (unless you are the creator of one!) I can't see how you could fill in the form on screen if it is a pdf - you'd need to print it out, I think.

Best wishes
Lesley

Post by **Tracey** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:43 pm

Hi Lesley

Why do people send them and ask you (me) to fill them in and mail them back ? do they know how much this confuses me

I even saved one as Text thinking it might make a difference also pasting it didnt make any difference either. Print and Scan it is then

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:46 pm

Hi Tracey
Its not very high-tech, but its the only way I can think of doing it! (Well...OK, I can think of other more complicated ways to work around it, but they are not worth the effort for a bit of form filling!)

Why do people send them and ask you (me) to fill them in and mail them back ? do they know how much this confuses me

They just do it to wind you up Tracey!

Best wishes
Lesley

Bob C · Post by **Bob C** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:01 am

Tracey wrote:I have a form i have to fill in. It came to me as some often do as an Adobe pdf file. Can someone tell me how i fill in the form on my pc ?. Sounds silly but its not that straigh forward for me

Tracy.

If the form was "properly" designed in Adobe and saved as a "fill in" form, then you should be able to click in the areas where information is to be entered and type in the information requested.

If you get a message to the effect that the form is not modifiable then you cannot type into the form.

When you have completed the form, you can "file>save as" and after giving it a name save it to your compurter to be attached to an email.

Hope this helps!

Bob

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:08 am

Hi Bob

If the form was "properly" designed in Adobe and saved as a "fill in" form, then you should be able to click in the areas where information is to be entered and type in the information requested.

Ah, interesting. I didn't know you could do that! Its all here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/328647.html
Sounds like the one Tracey has been sent has not been set up that way.

Best wishes
Lesley

Post by **AndrewP** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:09 am

Hi Tracey,

See if the form at this link works for you.

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/forms/ ... s/288B.pdf

If you can fill details in, in this form, then all is well with your PC and its Adobe Acrobat program.

All the best,

Andrew

Post by **Tracey** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:34 pm

LesleyB
Sounds like the one Tracey has been sent has not been set up that way.

No and none of the others ive been sent from organisations have been "writable" either. But the link Andrew sent i was able to type on. Oh well, ive scanned and copied it now.

Many thanks for all your help

Tracey

Post by **paddyscar** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:52 am

AndrewP wrote: ... See if the form at this link works for you.

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/forms/ ... s/288B.pdf

If you can fill details in, in this form, then all is well with your PC and its Adobe Acrobat program.
...

Thanks for that, Andrew! Like Tracey, I've always wondered what I'm doing wrong

Frances

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