Preview to Adobe Conflcit

[TheBiggmann]

I'm working on filling out my scholarship forms for my high school, and when I filled it out on Preview and sent it, it shows up empty until you click on the field; then the information shows up. However, as soon as you click out of the field it goes back to blank again. If you print it out it prints blank, and I'm not sure why it does this. Is there a compatibility issue that is unavoidable or is there a fix to it? If I open it up in Adobe on my MBP and fill it out it works fine, but i can't go from Preview to Adobe on the schools windows computers. Any ideas? I can use Adobe, but I'm just curious for future reference. Thanks!

 

[rivan]

Preview doesn't respect a number of PDF standards.

While my experience with that doesn't have anything to do directly with form values, I suspect it's a similar root cause.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: rivan
Preview doesn't respect a number of PDF standards.

While my experience with that doesn't have anything to do directly with form values, I suspect it's a similar root cause.

Yep, I've ended up installing Adobe Reader on my MacBook. Its nice that Preview supports PDF, but Adobe Reader just seems to work much better.

 

[TheBiggmann]

So have you guys just switched over to Adobe as your default then?

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: TheBiggmann
So have you guys just switched over to Adobe as your default then?

My business often deals with PDF as a format. Noone I work with uses anything but Adobe Acrobat to manipulate PDFs, except in very specific situations where Acrobat doesn't have the tools needed, like for imposition.

Obviously, licensing for Acrobat Pro doesn't make sense for everyone.

FYI, Adobe is a company with many, many products. Acrobat is their product you're talking about.

 

[Kmax82]

Yea.. I would use Adobe Acrobat for reading most, if not all, PDFs.

There is a program, if you need to create forms, do signatures, etc.. called PDFPen by SmileOnMyMac that is pretty darn good.

http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/index.html