saving PFD's with fillable fields

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I have a fillable PDF that after I save it, it opens blank when uploading to an eDigital signing program.... ( it looks fine when i open but after I upload the same document- it is BLANK..

I tried to open in Mac Preview- BLANK

I tried to make a copy and save that- BLANK

Help! I can't Print a 1 page contract and then rescan and upload... I need to be able to save to desktop and immediately upload for signatures!

( I use a Mac Book Pro- just got a new one- never had a problem with my 2012 laptop.)

SO FRUSTRATING!!

Karl Heinz Kremer · Accepted Answer

There is no need to Reader-enable your form. Form filling and saving is a feature that is supported in the free Adobe Reader version XI and later (it was not in Reader X and earlier and you needed to reader-enable forms for these earlier versions of Reader).

I have a fillable PDF that after I save it, it opens blank when uploading to an eDigital signing program.... ( it looks fine when i open but after I upload the same document- it is BLANK..

What "eDigital signing program" are you using? The file looks fine when you open it right away after filling the form, but it's blank once you upload it, I would suspect that this digital signature application is doing something to the contents of this document.

laureno74919723 · Answer

I followed these instructions:

Seems that the PDF is not reader extended.

Please make sure that the PDF is Reader Extended using Acrobat application.

Open the application in Acrobat, navigate to Save as other -> Reader Extended tools -> Enable more tools. Save the PDF.

Now, open the PDF and fill it. Make sure you Save the PDF after filling the data. This should fix your issue.

But I don't have that option... I have attached a screen shot:

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