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All / most PDF forms used by the Australian Defence Force are like this - I suspect it’s because it’s all tied into the identity / ability to digitally sign the
by hobos_delight 5y ago
All / most PDF forms used by the Australian Defence Force are like this - I suspect it’s because it’s all tied into the identity / ability to digitally sign the forms.
It’s very frustrating when you send someone (externally) a PDF and it required them to install Acrobat.
Or maybe it’s just Adobe trying to take the P out of PDF…
- bombcar 5y agoThe PDF format supports all sorts of insane extensions only implemented in Acrobat and only used by governments and large enterprises.
- jay_kyburz 5y agoWhen I get forms like this I just dump them to jpg, fill them in an a paint program and zip them back up and send them as static images.
- Tagbert 5y agoThey may not be accepted by the form issuer if they have a process to pull the text out of specific fields in the PDF. I have run into that before. They are not just looking at the document but processing it.
- rcthompson 5y agoThat doesn't work. You can't even view the PDF without Acrobat. (There's an example linked elsewhere in this thread.)