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Lots. My wife and I are in the process of trying to become licensed as foster/adoptive parents in the state of Texas and quite a bit of the paperwork we have ha
by nonameiguess 5y ago
Lots. My wife and I are in the process of trying to become licensed as foster/adoptive parents in the state of Texas and quite a bit of the paperwork we have had to fill out will open fine in a browser, but can only be edited in Adobe Reader. I just had to fill out a form to get a new common access card to work as a federal contractor for the US DoD and it wasn't possible to save edits to the form except with Adobe Reader Pro. Even the free version of Adobe didn't work. I could read the form fine, but if I can't fill it out, I can't submit it.
A lot of this is just issues with skeuomorphism. There is little reason any of these workflows need to use pdfs at all, except that it represents a smaller feeling change from the legacy paper workflows compared to migrating to a purely web-based workflow that uses html forms instead of editable pdfs. Heck, I think I remember the FAFSA being fully html-based forms over 15 years ago when I first went to grad school, but I'm not totally sure.