Can't type in form field

Can't type in form field

OK but my version is old Acrobat 4 The help told me to choose tools>forms>auto calculate field values. The auto calculate field values is checked but is grayed out

>One help told me to Choose Forums>Start Form Wizard. I cannot find the forms or wizard.

That's because it's not available in Reader. You need Acrobat to create forms.

Adobe Reader 9 Scanned form using HP all in one and saved in pdf format Form opens up ok and I know there is other things I have to do in order to make the fields printable. One help told me to Choose Forums>Start Form Wizard. I cannot find the forms or wizard. What do I do?

Correct. PDF/A doesn't support fields. Glad you got it figured out.

I found the problem.

The pdf was opening in PDF/A mode and that mode does not support fields. In Edit|Preferences|Documents there is a setting to shut off PDF/A view mode. It then works as expected.

My Adobe Reader says it is fully updated.

When I open the doc is tells me at the top "You are viewing this document in PDF/A mode"

If I select the "Hand", it does not turn to a text entry cursor or allow me to click into the fields. The arrow/I tool just stays as a "I" when over the text or the fields, but does not allow me to enter the field or add text.

Thanks for the help.

Not sure. They work fine in 9 for me.

What happens when you try and fill it out? As many details as you can give would be helpful.

The form fields in this PDF work with Foxit reader, but not with Adobe Reader 9 (Windows XP sp3):

http://dsnet.co.clark.nv.us/dsweb/permit_application/forms/signpermitapp.pdf

Any ideas what is wrong with Adobe Reader?

Thanks.

>These are the pdf properties I've seen multiple times...

You can basically ignore what those properties say. They're just telling you that "if" there were fillable form fields, you would be allowed to fill them out. It's not saying that those form fields exist.

>and they are ment to be filled out using reader

How do you know? Did they specifically tell you that you could use Reader to fill them out?

Do you have a link to one that we can look at?

Graffiti, first off thanks for the help. Secondly I am experiencing the same problem as all the other people here. I have been filling out applications for employment for years and have never experienced this issue of not being able to temporarily fill in the text boxes. I recently printed an application and filled it out by hand, in hind sight I think I wasn't selected for an interveiw because of this.

These are the pdf properties I've seen multiple times...

Printing: Allowed
Document Assembly: Not Allowed
Content Copying: Allowed
Content Copying for Accessibility: Allowed
Page Extraction: Allowed
Commenting: Not Allowed
Filling of form fields: Allowed
Signing: Not Allowed
Creation of Template Pages: Not Allowed

Like I said before these are employment application forms and they are ment to be filled out using reader. It would seem that something has either changed with the newer versions of Adobe or my computer is corrupt... and I really hope it's not the second.