Print to Fillable form or Overlay PDF's?

[Leanne5CA6]

Hello,

I am looking for assistance. I would like to find a way to print to a fillable form or overlay PDF's

I do medical billing and am looking for a way to remotely without a printer, print a patients claim to a CMS 1500 form. The billing program I use will print the claim without the CMS background (it assumes I am printing to a blank CMS Form) However being remote due to HIPAA stuff I cannot print any paper from home. Ideally i would either like to overlay my text to a picture of a CMS form, OR print the text somehow to a fillable CMS form but i am not sure how to do either! Any ideas?

[Document Geek]

Go to the layers pane:

Options button > Import as layer > Appear in front of page.

[luser47]

This doesn't appear to work in Acrobat DC.

I created two documents.  One is the scan of the paper form and the other document is a blank page with form fields and checkboxes.  I open the scanned form in Acrobat DC.  Then, on the left side, I open the Navigation Pane, select the Layers button, which opens the Layers panel, then I select the Layers menu and from there select "Import as Layer".  I then specify the file to open (the blank page with form fields), and under "Create new layer", I give the new layer the name "form overlay".  I noted that "Order" in the bottom left says "Appear in front of page".

Once that is done, the form fields are there and visible, but are not editable.  For example, I see that check boxes are added, but I cannot check/uncheck them.  If I start over and put in some initial text into the form fields of the form field document and use that as a layer, I can see that initial text and it is in the right place, but it cannot be edited.

[try67]

There are no form fields in the files you shared.

[Bernd Alheit]

Where are the shared files?

[luser47]

I wasn't the one that shared the files, so I assume your reply was meant for Leanne5CA6's post.  It does appear at my end that of the two files shared, which I'll call the (1) scanned page and the (2) overlay page, they do not have form fields.  I created an overlay page that does have form fields.  I created it by starting with the scanned page, asking Acrobat to create a form out of it, then edited the PDF to remove the scanned parts (and all but two of the form fields).  The remaining overlay page is just one form field and a four-option radio button group.  That overlay page is attached.  When I exit Acrobat DC to start over, I open the scanned page, then open the template page as a new layer.  The radio button group appears.  I presume the form field also is there in the layer, but I can't see it because it doesn't have any text in it.  But I know where it is on the page.  I cannot click on the radio buttons or enter text in the form field.  I believe if someone could explain how to get the overlay layer to be active and allow for editing that would solve Leanne5CA6's and my problem.

[luser47 · Accepted solution]

See https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/apply-a-form-fillable-quot-layer-quot-on-pdf-file... for a solution to this.  Add the CMS 1500 form as a background to a page with your form fields.

[janicej93931460]

Did you ever figure this out?  I have the same issue

[luser47]

Yes. Start with the form you have that you want to overlay form fields to. From a new blank document, add your form as a background. Then add in all of the form fields you want. Remove the background. Now you have a document that is just the form fields. Save that document.

Now each time you want to fill out that form, open the form field document, then open your form as a background. Fill in the form fields and then print to PDF to get a filled in PDF.