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PDFs for forms are truly terrible and barely work[1] in anything except Adobe Reader. Online forms are not without their problems, especially from the maintenan
by xvilka 6y ago
PDFs for forms are truly terrible and barely work[1] in anything except Adobe Reader. Online forms are not without their problems, especially from the maintenance point of view, but significantly more accessible to the normal people, especially for the mobile phones, if designed properly.
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=forms https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues?labe...
- jimmaswell 6y agoI've filled out lots of PDF forms in Firefox and Chrome without issue.
- cratermoon 6y agoBecause they license Adobe's engine to handle the PDFs
- anoncake 6y agoFirefox uses PDF.js, Chrome's reader is based on Foxit.
- tomjen3 6y agoI wished I had known that when I filled out a form in document preview on my Mac a few hours ago, including adding a signature. The process was basically perfect and about as simple as can be.
- wildrhythms 6y agoI've successfully been using Preview to annotate, sign, fill in annoying PDFs for years. Works great