[Hidden-tech] Printing a PDF with filling forms

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:08:17 -0400 Will Loving <will at dedicationtechnologies.com> wrote:

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> When creating forms that will be used cross-platform, make sure to use fonts
> that can be counted on to be on nearly all machines, Mac or Win. The most

*Or Linux*!

> commonly used are Arial (10 or 11 point generally works well) and Verdana,
> the most widely used font on the web, 9 or 10 point. If you need a fairly
> condensed font, I've also had good luck with Tahoma.
> 
> I generally avoid Times (regular or New Roman) and especially the old
> default Mac font Helvetica. Helvetica is not on most Windows machines and

Isn't Helvetica one of the 14 standard PostScript/PDF fonts?

> almost always gets replaced with Arial at a much larger size. Of course, in
> comparing Windows and Mac, the same font in the same size will generally
> appear larger on Windows, so keep that in mind as you design.
> 
> Will
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> on 7/6/09 12:33 PM, Rich at rich at on-the-net.com wrote:
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> >    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
> >    ** If you did, we all thank you.
> > 
> > 
> > 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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