[Hidden-tech] Printing a PDF with fillin forms

[Rich]

It looks like we have pinned down the issue -- a few comments from 
HT'ers about some of the internal features of PDF/fields
and revisiting a startup message on that page plus a bit of 
experimenting found it.
There is a printable control on the fields that was properly set However ...

The form was filled in on a mac and we were printing on a PC -- and the 
fonts didn't match,
there is an option about saving fonts locally in the Advanced menu which 
doesn't seem to
make any difference, except making the file larger (much) -- and it was 
set on the mac
side.

Thanks for every one's quick response -- it lead to trying the right 
experiment,
which all my googlging didn't.

Rich

Rich wrote:
> We have a pdf form with fillin's and what to print the page with the 
> fillin's visible,
> sounds too easy -- only when you try to print, you get only the blank 
> form.
>
> I have Adobe Acrobat 7.0 professional, which has lots of form 
> creating/editing features
> and there is a checkbox on the top of the page that shows all field
> values when checked.  When using print (document) all we get is a 
> blank form,
> using print (form feeds only) we get a few check marks from later 
> pages, none of the text fields
> that show values on the screen.
>
> I can see lots of features for exports/collecting data, they are so 
> complex I've not
> gotten them to work - and besides a spreadsheet is not what I want.
>
> The form is: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1023.pdf
>
> Any hints or other tools, web sites whatever I can use.
>

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