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For fun, here are some of the bad form-filling experiences I have had recently: 1. Received PDF via email. The file was designed to be filled digitally (it had
by oftenwrong 7y ago
For fun, here are some of the bad form-filling experiences I have had recently:
1. Received PDF via email. The file was designed to be filled digitally (it had actual fillable fields). However, none of the PDF readers I tried could fill all of the fields. Some of the fields were broken/missing. It is possible the file was created incorrectly, or that my PDF software was not-entirely-compatible with the form. I had to insert a text overlay to fill in the broken fields.
2. Received a PDF file via email. It did not have fillable fields at all - it was like a raw scan. I could only fill it digitally by manually overlaying text, which would have been a pain. I decided to print-fill-scan instead.
3. Received a Microsoft Word document (.doc) file via email. No actual fillable fields - just sections created with underlined space characters. I didn't want to print-and-scan, so I "overtyped" in these sections to replace the space characters with my entries. Where check marks were required, I pasted a check mark character in. One field required me to circle an option, so I had to use a shape overlay.