Editable forms typed in Acrobat display odd in Apple's Preview

I've been creating editable forms in Acrobat and typing information into those fields. The resulting PDFs look great in Acrobat (text is aligned, etc.), but when I open a PDF in Apple's Preview, all the text I typed in the editable fields is misaligned both onscreen and when I print the document.
My solution is to view the documents in Acrobat, but I'm worried about clients opening up the PDF when I send it to them and getting wonky results
Is this a known issue? Solutions?
Example of what I mean:.
PDF viewed in Acrobat - correct
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1CtqhC2b1MAEgYaxaQKNBQspRv9AFo
PDF viewed in Preview - incorrect, misaligned text
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=19gesQJw88nbKyXryJq63Sv2Rcj1
Thanks!

Non Acrobat (Adobe) readers will have difficulties viewing form files correctly. Since Preview, Skim and other PDF reader type do not have a form function built into them, they cannot distinguish the javascript field properly from other graphic elements on a page, hence the misalignment of the fields.
Your clients will have to use Acrobat Reader 7.0.9 and up to take full advantage of the form features.
Cheers.

Similar Messages

Editing Form Fields inside Acrobat? (after using LiveCycle Designer)

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended == Acrobat
LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 == LiveCycle Designer
=========================================
Say I downloaded a new PDF from the interwebs.
I want to add some forms fields so I go to Forms ==> Add or Edit Fields... (inside Acrobat)
Now Acrobat will detect possible places where to add the form fields. I make changes etc. Then I am satisfied with my form fields.
Now say I want to remove a particular object from the PDF, lets take an image as an example.
So I fire up LiveCycle Designer; File ==> New ==> Import a PDF document ==> Create an Interactive Form with a Flowable Layout.
I remove that pesky little object.
In LiveCycle Designer, I save the file as PDF.
I open up Acrobat. I realize I need to make some more changes to some of the Form Fields.
But now instead of "Add or Edit Fields..." option I get "Edit Form in Designer..."
I hate the GUI of LiveCycle Designer --- I had rather edit the form fields from inside Acrobat, as it is easy and fast to change multiple form fields in a few clicks.

Thank you Niall for the above response; Your response gave me an idea which allowed me to remove that line by zooming in to 200%
You know Acrobat detects Form Fields for you.
But many times it makes mistakes, for example in the screenshot below it made the boxes that came with the PDF as text fields instead of check boxes.
The thing is rather than me delete the (form) fields it detected, and start over by making new check boxes, I will not be able to place my new check box in exact locations as Acrobat has done.
When I imported the fields that Acrobat made into LC (by saving the PDF in Acrobat and then opening it with LC) I get option to change the Object Type from Text Field to Check Box when I right click the object.
Is there a similar way to change the Object Type from Text Field to Check Box inside Acrobat? Any suggestions?
===========
I would really like to do it inside Acrobat because then if I have to make some minor changes to some field properties, all my hard work which I did by filling the fields gets deleted, as I am forced to use LC. The text I add to the fields don't get deleted when I edit the field properties inside Acrobat. I don't know why LC decides to delete all the text which is filled out in the form fields even though the PDF is saved in Acrobat before being imported into LC?
Here is the above PDF file with the text boxes:
http://www.mediafire.com/?lnn32jm5am5
Again thanks for all your guidance so far.

Editing Forms in Adobe Acrobat XI

How do I create a form in FormsCentral, save it in an editable PDF version, and edit it in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI?

In FormsCentral save the form as PDF using File-> Save as PDF Form... If you do not intend for the form to use FormsCentral to collect responses then in the resulting dialog select button Don't Collect Responses. Open the resulting file in Acrobat Pro and use File-> Save a Copy... Open the copy in Acrobat Pro and select Tools-> Forms. You should now be able to edit the form.
Jeff Canepa
Software Quality Engineer
Adobe Systems, Inc.
[email protected]

How do I exit edit form mode in Acrobat 7?

I haven't used the program for a while and I can't remember how. I thought it was a quick button somewhere, but I'm just not seeing it... I feel like a dunce...

OK, I'll bite. I'm in form editing mode and no hand tool appears. How can I make it show up? Do I have to quit the application to get out of form editing mode, then learn how to make the Hand Tool show up before I go back into form editing. Obviously, I'm trying to avoid a learning curve for using the app. That's what mobile devices have done to the philosophy of computer use, is it not?

Quick Tip: How to create editable form fields | Acrobat X Tips & Tricks | Adobe TV

A short tip that details how to create editable form fields using Acrobat X Std. or Pro.
http://adobe.ly/wzXkmL

I have created a form which will be filled out by customers and sent back to me via 'submit' button. What I am trying to figure out is when we receive the filled out form, is there any way to have it as a pdf. To clarify, when the form is filled out and sent, the receiver opens the email and attached is a non-editable pdf. This way the customers information is no longer editable.

Adobe Acrobat 6.0 CE Standard edited forms do not display fields

I have a user who has Adobe Acrobat 6.0 CE Standard, she uses it to fill out an editable form created with Adobe and send it to clients. When this form is saved and attached to an e-mail, anyone who recieves it and opens it in Reader 9.0 the fields that were edited do not display. However, If It is sent through the "Send by e-mail for review" option under the "File" menu option in the Adobe Acrobat 6.0 CE. It arrives and opens up with the input data in the fields.
Can anyone tell me what the difference is and why It cannopt be opened in Reader if just sent as an attachment in Outlook?

Lolanda,
Do you know if your users that cannot use the forms have access to the ADSCerts view in the Key Storage service? Check out slide 26 in the below link:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b08aaa7b-b2f3-2a10-5591-f472a273b90a
-Matt

Clicking "Edit PDF form" stops Adobe Acrobat Pro 11 from working. [FIXED]

As the title says, whenever I click "Edit PDF form" in Acrobat Pro 11, it displays the message "Adobe Acrobat has stopped working" and then when I click OK it closes.
It is a fresh install. I tried reinstalling, by removing it first, i tried a repair, I also tried using Revo Uninstaller to clean up anything that was left after an uninstall, and still no joy.
Any help would be appreciated.
It is running on Windows 8.1 Update (x64), and the version number for Acrobat Pro is 11.0.10.
Thanks!
**Update**
While I was writing this I had an epiphany, so I checked the Windows application logs which logged the following error every time Acrobat crashed...
Faulting application name: Acrobat.exe, version: 11.0.10.32, time stamp: 0x547e97af
Faulting module name: nvd3dum.dll, version: 9.18.13.4121, time stamp: 0x5474d740
Exception code: 0xc0000005
which lists nvd3dum.dll as the culprit. This has something to do with my Nvidia graphics card or drivers (NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600)
So after a little research I discovered a little registry tweak which "specifies the number of seconds that the GPU can delay the preempt request from the GPU scheduler. This is effectively the timeout threshold. The default value is 2 seconds." (Quoted from MSDN)
So I added the REG_DWORD value TdrDelay to the key path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers, and changed the value to 8. After rebooting this seemed to have solved the issue I was having.
Here's a screenshot...
Hope this helps someone!

We created forms in acrobat 9 pro and now with XI pro cannot edit them. Error message states that livecycle designer is required to edit forms previously created in acrobat. Called tech support and waited for over an hour before being told that another product needed to be purchased for $300 more than the upgrade cost for acrobat pro XI!!! From the XI FAQ - The web site states:
The following customers are eligible for a free upgrade:
Customers who purchased a prior license to Acrobat and have purchased an upgrade to Acrobat XI Pro
Customers who have an Adobe Maintenance and Support contract or purchased Upgrade Plan eligible for an Acrobat XI Pro upgrade
Active Creative Cloud Complete members whose memberships started before October 15, 2012
The one-time LiveCycle Designer upgrade is available in English, French, German, or Japanese. Eligible customers can choose which language they would like to receive. Visit the Customer Support Portal to request an upgrade.
After entering in the needed info on the support portal was told that adobe will Not honor the sales rep & web site which both said we are eligible for the free upgrade. We asked for a full refund and will not longer be using any new adobe products. We went back to 9 pro forms work fine and adobe lost $. Nice work adobe - lie to customers and then act surprised that the customers want their $ back! They told us to just toss their software DVD in the trash where IT belongs, so we did!
Cheers,
Actiondan

I have an editable pdf made in Acrobat. Viewing it Adobe Reader Mobile (Android) and I can fill it fine. I want to be able to fill the form but it keeps autosaving. I just want to email the form and then it goes back to an unfilled form. How do i do that?

I have an editable pdf made in Acrobat. Viewing it Adobe Reader Mobile (Android) and I can fill it fine. I want to be able to fill the form but it keeps autosaving. I just want to email the form and then it goes back to an unfilled form. How do i do that?

Currently, Adobe Reader for Android does not provide an option to disable auto-save.
In the Reader home screen (where your files are displayed), you can make a copy of the original PDF document, open the copy (instead of opening the original document), make changes to the copy. Once you email the copy, you can delete it.
For more information, please see Help > How To... > Copy, edit, delete, manage.
Although it is not the most convenient way to accomplish the task, that's the only feasible workaround that is available in Adobe Reader for Android right now.

Cannot Edit a Form in Adobe Acrobat Pro Xi - use Livecycle

Hi all,
I was advised to buy Adobe Pro XI yesterday by the Direct Sales Adobe team because it includes "everything I need" to create and EDIT PDF forms. I actually rang up to buy X but was told it was now XI.
I tried to edit a form today and got this message:
"this form cannot be edited in Acrobat. Please use Adobe Livecycle Designer to edit this form"
I was told this was included in Pro but can't get past this message. I previously had a trial of Adobe Pro X and WAS able to edit this very form.
It is very frustrating. I cannot edit anything I have been working on.
FormsCentral seems too basic as I need to be able to edit the field name in the properties of the field.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
David

We created forms in acrobat 9 pro and now with XI pro cannot edit them. Error message states that livecycle designer is required to edit forms previously created in acrobat. Called tech support and waited for over an hour before being told that another product needed to be purchased for $300 more than the upgrade cost for acrobat pro XI!!! From the XI FAQ - The web site states:
The following customers are eligible for a free upgrade:
Customers who purchased a prior license to Acrobat and have purchased an upgrade to Acrobat XI Pro
Customers who have an Adobe Maintenance and Support contract or purchased Upgrade Plan eligible for an Acrobat XI Pro upgrade
Active Creative Cloud Complete members whose memberships started before October 15, 2012
The one-time LiveCycle Designer upgrade is available in English, French, German, or Japanese. Eligible customers can choose which language they would like to receive. Visit the Customer Support Portal to request an upgrade.
After entering in the needed info on the support portal was told that adobe will Not honor the sales rep & web site which both said we are eligible for the free upgrade. We asked for a full refund and will not longer be using any new adobe products. We went back to 9 pro forms work fine and adobe lost $. Nice work adobe - lie to customers and then act surprised that the customers want their $ back! They told us to just toss their software DVD in the trash where IT belongs, so we did!
Cheers,
Actiondan

Save editable form into regular PDF document using Acrobat Reader

Hello,
With Adobe Pro, I've created a PDF form using the following:
Save As Other...
Reader Extended PDF
Enable More Tools (includes form fill-in & save)...
Once saved, I am sending this form to colleagues for them to fill out. These colleagues only have access to Acrobat Reader.
What I'm hoping to do is to have them save the file into a regular PDF document with the info inserted in the form but without the option to change the form info (change from editable form to regular PDF file).
Thanks for your help.

Hrm, OK. Well I actually DON'T have my document set as a reader extended PDF. If i fill out my fields then try to use the sign feature, it's not flattening the fields when I save/close reopen. They are still editable.
Just as a test, I saved it as reader extended and the sign feature is grayed out as you stated it should be. I am using acrobat X to create my fields and using reader XI to test inputting data/saving.
I need users to be able to fill it out, save then send and the recipient NOT be able to modify the fields. Am I missing something with the sign feature?
Thanks again for the reply!

Can't edit form after upgrade to Acrobat XI

I am using Adobe Acrobat XI through Adobe Creative Cloud and was going to edit a form that I had made and I get this message:
"This form cannot be edited in Acrobat. Please use Adobe LiveCycle Design to edit this form."
Does anyone have experience with this problem.
I just edited form in Acrobat about two weeks ago and then it was no problem.

Thanks George, this is a document that I made in 2012. I have figured out that I did password protect it and also did use an certificate. So I am going to look in my backups and find the original file before I locked it.
I was only saying that I had edited another form in the Acrobat XI, not this one.
Thank you for your answer.

Can you create editable forms in Acrobat X Standard?

Hi everyone,
Hopefully an easy question although I cannot find a definitive answer on the product page.
I need to be able to create editable forms that others can fill in and print or save using Reader 8, 9 or X. Can these forms be created using Adobe Acrobat X Standard? The forms have been created in Word 2007 but we want to disribute them as PDF's and allow certain fields to be filled in on the PDF. The form will be downloaded from a website, filled in and emailed back.
Any clarification on this is greatly received.
Thanks...

I know you can create forms with Standard but I don't think you can enable them so that Reader users can save them without the Pro version.
dasnowball87 wrote:
The form will be downloaded from a website, filled in and emailed back.
Even if you could do this, you would want to carefully consider whether you want a form out there for everyone to fill out and send in. There is a restriction to the amount of times you can receive data from an enabled form. After 500 times, you would be violating the license agreement.

Interactive report's data not displaying on the edit form.

I have an interactive report that contains 3 rows. When I click on the edit button next to one of these rows, the edit form displays the data from that row.
But when I click the edit buttons next to the other 2 report rows, I get an error message that states: "ORA-01403: no data found. Error Unable to fetch row."
I do not see why this is happening. The PK of the table involved is "Request Date", so the report's "Link Column" region sends the value "Request Date" to the item P54_Request_Date in the form page.
Any idea why this would work correctly for one of the report rows but not for the other 2?
Clearly, each of the report rows must have a value for the PK, so why would the form not be able to find the same row that the report displays? Is it a problem with the form's "Fetch Row from" process?
Thanks.

Hello:
Your problems are primarily related to in your choice of a 'Date' type as the PK for your table. The Automated Row Fetch (ARF) process uses a SQL statement similar to the one below to retrieve a record from a table select c1, c2, c3 ... from tab where PK_col = :page_item_containing_PK_value . This would work find if the the 'page_item_containing_PK_value' were of the DATE data type. However, all APEX binds are done using varchar2. This means that the 'page_containging_PK_value' needs to have the char representation of the date that matches the default date setting on your database. So the page-item needs to be something like 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI'. In your case the PK item is probably being set to 'DD-MON-YYYY' and therefore the fetch fails.
Now, for the 'issue with the :' in the character representation of the date.The link on the report page uses the standard APEX URL syntax to construct the link
f?p=App:Page:Session:Request:Debug:ClearCache:itemNames:itemValues:PrinterFriendly
As you can see, the ':' acts as the separator that delineates the components that make up the APEX URL. So, having a ':' in the 'itemValues' component will make the APEX engine treat whatever follows the ':' in the value passed as a delimiter as opposed to being part of the value being passed.
Varad

How to not display certain items based upon certain criteria (Edit Form)

I have a Edit form which was created from an interactive report I generated.
There are 10 item fields which are listed which can be changed.
Sometimes I want to see just 9 of the fields on the form based on what the value is of another field in the record.
When I display the fields on the Interactive report I can filter this out by using a case statement, but how
do I do this with the edit form as the query is not there.
Thanks for your time in advance,
Anon

Use Conditions to control whether the item appears or not.
In the item definition is a Conditions section where a large number of different types of condition can be used to determine whether the item is rendered. These include comparisons of the value of the item, or another item, items being null, and a lot of other options. Conditions are widely used throughout APEX—sometimes in subtle or noninuitive ways—so it's worthwhile studying how they're used.

Acrobat X keeps crashing in Edit Forms mode

Hi!
I use Acrobat primarily to edit forms I made before I started using LiveCycle. I have recently used the adobe cleaner and reinstalled all of CS.5 (because I couldn't figure out how to uninstall Acrobat alone), I am on Windows XP 64 bit--- Acrobat stopped crashing for a few days after the reinstall, now it's crashing when I try to edit form fields. I have a deadline to meet for some form edits... please help?
Many thanks,
Laura

Hi again,
I tried Adobe's help/customer support/chat thing to try to find out why this is happening, and the answer I received was that I had to rebuild my 11-page, 665-field form from scratch. Yikes! All my fields are "hand-made", or customized from "detect form fields": there's no quickie way to recreate them.
The person I spoke with said the problem was that the underlying page layout had originally been built in aiCS3 (though I've edited it in CS5.5 since), and so it was too old to use in Acrobat anymore.
It's puzzling- I had been able to make my layout edits in ai, then field edits in Acrobat, up until a couple of weeks ago.
I'm growing concerned that all my forms will become obsolete after a couple of years. That's scary for a company, to have to have all its custom-built and branded forms rebuilt from scratch every year and half or so.
Am I understanding this correctly?
Thanks for any help or information,
Laura

Editable forms typed in Acrobat display odd in Apple's Preview

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for