Why does everyone insist on creating refund PDFs that I can’t fill out using Adobe Acrobat or ?
Do they think that I’m going to change the amount of the rebate, or the deadline? If so, they are silly people, because obviously they wouldn’t honor it and all they would have to do is produce the other rebate forms that people used to countradict my rebate form.
All I want to do is be able to fill in my name, address, etc in the form so it will be legible, so I’ll have a record of it, and so it will be easier for them to read and harder for them to say that it was illegible.
Fortunately there’s a way to do it.
Using this tip, , I removed the restriction.
I tried filling out the form in Adobe Acrobat… After all, that’s the 800-pound gorilla, Cadillac of PDF apps, right? I used the Typewriter tool. The result?
That looks awful. There’s no way (that I could find) to get the characters on the same line, so it looked like some amateur ransom note.
What did I do instead? I used the text tool in PDFpenPro. Since the form in question had individual text boxes (intended for you to write one letter in each box), I made one text field for each section (name, address, city, state, zip, etc) and resized it.
Then I typed each letter, using the spacebar to line them up appropriately. The result? Judge for yourself:
Now there’s a lot of difference between PDFpenPro and Adobe Acrobat, not the least of which is price.
But higher prices don’t always mean better features.