Using Fill & Sign on Flat Forms Results in PDFs with Messed Up Entries, How to Prevent This?
Hi,
I am hoping you can help me out here:
Adobe advises to use the "Fill & Sign" function to fill in a "flat" PDF form. (Acrobat Help | Fill and sign PDF forms)
However, doing so results in a filled-in PDF that can be printed OK: (the below screenshot is from the print, which I rescanned)
But opening the PDF again, it looks like this: (I just lost an hour of work as I did not print the first try, it happened again on second try, but this time I had printed)
Why is this happening? How can I prevent this from happening? What are alternative (digital) ways to filling in a flat PDF form / what is the most effective way of doing this?
Thank you for all ideas!
(latest Adobe Acrobat, 11.0.10, on latest Mac OS X, 10.10.3)
Hi,
The ",screenshot is from Adobe Acrobat (saved and reopened the same file), it also looks the same in Preview and in Chrome.
The font is (should be) Helvetica, it is one of the four fonts listed on the top of the alphabetical list of all fonts (which I take as "recommended"), and it was the pre-selected font.
There are also line breaks in "messed up" PDF that I definitely did not type in...
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