PDF fillable form not showing some accented characters

[David23093182se72]

Interactive PDF form created in LibreOffice Writer is not showing some Czech charracters with accents (ů, ř, č) after filling and reopening. When the text filed is activated, data apeear, but disappear again after deactivating the filed.

[Bernd Alheit]

Fill the form with Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat and it will work.

[David23093182se72]

I do and it doesn't work. There seems to be some problem with encoding of generic font, that Acrobat uses for form fields.

I actuallly found a solution:

1. open the PDF in PDF-XChange Editor sofrware and resave

2. it repairs encoding

3. PDF form now works even in Acrobat

[Scary22531296jgiz]

Same problem here. I did what you mentioned with the PDF-XChange Editor and worked great.

Definitely an Adobe problem.

[Abambo]

Definitely an Adobe problem.

By @Scary22531296jgiz

I wouldn't say that so fast. There may be errors in the form creation process. And there may be errors during the filling in of the data. If standards are not respected, there may be plenty of errors showing-up.

When I copy a field, and I paste it back in the field, the issue is solved.

Exporting the form data to excel (CSV), I get a different result:

[Scary22531296jgiz]

@Bernd Alheit Unfortunately, no, that is not good advice.

Adobe should open and display and print the characters properly.

The document was filled out properly by someone else, sent to me for printing. NO, we don't re-fill in a form filled in by someone else...especially when it is a government form and we don't want to be responsible for filling in someone else's data.

[JR Boulay]

When opended with Acrobat Czech characters and French characters displays fine in your document.

[David23093182se72]

The blank spaces in the fields are characters Ě, Č, Ř - they appear only when the filed is activated.

I guess there is some problem in combination of PDF export from LibreOffice and Acrobat encoding of the form fileds.