Fillable Form looks great in Acrobat Pro, totally wonky once uploaded

[Sarah21831384tv5x]

Hi, I have a fillable form that looks perfect in Acrobat Pro (see screenshot below) and that I can send to other people who don't have pro, and they can fill it out just fine. But when I uploade it to our website, it is completely wonky (Form is here: https://www.spectrumvt.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RC-Combined-Form-6.2.23.pdf). I'm also pasting a screenshot of this before - you can see the blue feilds are all over the place and you can't actually fill out the form. I've tried it in another browser and it works - I think the issue is the Acrobat extension in Chrome. Is there anything I can do about that? 

[Sarah21831384tv5x]

Adding more info: if I turn OFF the Adobe extension, the form looks perfect, so it's clearly the extension. But, other forms we have on the site look fine with the extension turned on. So is there a way to make this form work too? 

Ones that work with the extensiion on: https://www.spectrumvt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Compass-referral.pdf

https://www.spectrumvt.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Spectrum-Housing-Referral-Form_Editable_2023-1...

Thanks!

[Thom Parker]

There is no reason to use Reader Extensions anymore. This is an artifact of the past. 

It is entirely possible that depending on the type of extension, and the type of fields on the form that the Acrobat Web tools might choke. But this is pure speculation.  I'd suggest just stopping the use of Reader Extensions.

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Please don't shoot the messenger <grin>, but most browsers can't fully render PDFs, especially those with multimedia (audio/video for example), interactivity (buttons, animations), accessibililty, and form fields.

Technically, browsers are not compliant with the PDF standards for forms and interactvity.

But lately, some browsers and plug-in manufacturers are adding better, more complete features when they render PDFs...but I don't think any provide support for PDF forms.

Our office advises our clients to post PDFs to websites and give users clear instructions to download and save the blank PDF form to their computer and use Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat to open, fill in, and save the PDF form.

Some day, support for PDF forms should improve, but for now, we can depend only on Adobe's products to correctly process and render PDF forms.