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Katie Sak
Katie Sak

Reputation: 119

Embed a fillable pdf form on web page

Is there anyway to embed a fillable pdf form on a web page that the viewer would be able to fill out and send with the Adobe submit function? without having to click through or download the actual pdf

thanks

Upvotes: -1

Views: 5492

Answers (1)

joelgeraci
joelgeraci

Reputation: 4917

By default, the Adobe Reader will display a PDF in Protected Mode when it's viewed in a browser, for security reasons it's basically not interactive. Users can add your domain to a trusted host and then the PDF becomes interactive.

However, you can't really count on the PDF being opened in an Adobe viewer (Reader or Acrobat) when it's opened in a browser even when an Adobe viewer is installed on the machine and set as the default handler for that file type. The most common browsers have PDF viewers built in that just don't function in the same way as their Adobe counterparts.

You're really much better off linking to the PDF form in a way that forces the PDF to download (through .htaccess or something) and open in the default handler.

Upvotes: 2

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