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Participating Frequently
October 20, 2016
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Can not use form with calculations on iPad

  • October 20, 2016
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I have a form made with Adobe XI Pro... works great on PC, how to be able to complete calculations on iPad?

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Inspiring
October 21, 2016

You have to use a PDF viewer that supports them. The one with the most complete support on iOS is Readdle's PDF Expert and is what I recommend far above any other. Adobe Reader has some support for calculations, mostly the built-in ones, but you can also create custom calculation JavaScript that will work, but the scripting model is very limited.

Participating Frequently
October 21, 2016

Thank you George, but the form needs to be able to be used on the iPad without having to purchase any other apps. I am not sure how the JavaScript will work, but will look into it. It would seem to me that Adobe Reader should be able to read/calculate Adobe Acrobat forms

Inspiring
October 21, 2016

Even Adobe Reader has a limited amount of JavaScript support. No document level functions,

See

JavaScript APIs and Forms

for supported objects, propertied, and methods.