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Typing on a form

clieseke
Registered: Mar 5 2007
Posts: 4

I am trying to enter information on various scholarship forms that are posted as adobe documents. I cannot enter any information, and I cannot save them in any other format that will allow me to enter information. Can you help me?

My Product Information:
Reader 7.0.0, Windows
tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
Are you using Acrobat or Adobe Reader? If using Acrobat you can add text to a document by pressing the Ctrl/Option key with the TouchUp Text tool selected to insert a line of text.

With Acrobat and Adobe Reader you can use the Typewriter tool to add text to a PDF form.

If the form has form fields, you can click in a field and type text. If using Adobe Reader you cannot save ANY edits on a document that were made in Reader unless the form was enabled with Reader usage rights when the form was created by the Acrobat Professional user.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.