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2009-09-24 09:27:48
sillygilly
Registered: Sep 24 2009
Posts: 3

Ok, I thought I was pretty smart. Downloaded a PDF doc (employment app) and I have tried everything to fill is out. The "fill out forms" is "allowed" in the security settings, but I can't get boxes to come up. I'm using Adobe Reader 9.0. Did the trial version of the Adobe Pro and was able to fill in fields, but alass since it's the trial version it won't print the information I typed (glad I had the sense to test print the first part of it. New here and any help would be appreciated. Tried to copy past in MS Word 2007 (breaks up the quality of the form and Publisher. Thanks in advance for you help.

My Product Information:
Reader 9.0, Windows
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2009-09-24 10:39:06
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
Our crystal balls are foggy!

Are there form field on the form?

Just because someone scans a form to a PDF does not mean that the necessary form field's have been added to the scanned image. And the security setting that allows for filling in forms has no real affect if there are no form fields.

Can you provide a link to the form?

George Kaiser

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2009-09-25 04:06:00
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sillygilly
Registered: Sep 24 2009
Posts: 3
Thank you for your reply. The document is "scanned" and I think that is why it does not have fields. Here's the link https://www.morehead.org/Portal/Main.aspx?tid=244&mtid=1 click on "down load document" and that's the one.
I'd think that they would be more technical savvy for a hospital. My neighbor has a program that inserts fields, thankfully, too bad, no body has a typewriter anymore.
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