PDF form won't calculate in Preview

I've set up an Acrobat form that has a few subtotal and total fields. They work totally fine in Acrobat, and I can *fill out* the form fields in Preview and save it just fine, but the fields aren't auto-calculating. Any reason why this would be the case???

Jennifer Mitchell1 wrote:
How come Preview is SO substandard in implementing standard Adobe features??? Is this normal or is this just my computer?
It is normal, but I wouldn't call Preview substandard. No one other than Adobe implements saving data in fill-in forms. I don't know if no one else wants to bother or if Adobe won't license the technology and/or patents. Perhaps Apple doesn't want all the new viruses that come with this active technology inside PDF documents. Adobe has been trying to force its software on people by creating new versions of PDF that only work in Acrobat.
While Acrobat forms are a really cool feature, they have been greatly hobbled by Adobe's requirement of the full Acrobat version for saving any data. Adobe's Mac version of Acrobat does a really poor job with fill-in forms anyway. They are badly misaligned. Most people just use Preview's annotation features instead.

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