How to Print the Interactive Fields in an Interactive Form

May 5, 2009 10:55 AM

How do I get this fillable form PDF to print the information in the interactive fields. If I click "highlight fields" the information is there, but when I print it's gone.

I'm working in Acrobat 7.0. The form was created by someone else (I don't know what she was working in).

posted by kristymcj to Technology (5 answers total)

Check Text Field Properties > General > Form Field to see if it is set to "Visible but doesn't print"
posted by malchick at 11:20 AM on May 5, 2009

Response by poster: No luck. Anyone else?
posted by kristymcj at 2:30 PM on May 5, 2009

Id check to make sure the font color is black in the field (it may appear to be black but might be a non-printable color) and also check and see if your printer has a black and white print option.
posted by Relly70 at 3:17 PM on May 5, 2009

Also look on your print dialog for a drop-down box that tells it what to print (document, document & markup, document & comments, etc)
posted by ijoyner at 4:35 PM on May 5, 2009

Maybe try a different PDF reader that may be more obedient?

Failing that, chuck it out the window. No really: take a screenshot of it, and then print that using paint or something (use the print screen key with the window shown, then open paint and hit paste -- if you're on a Mac ... well, IANAMU, but this looks informative)
posted by qbxk at 4:13 AM on May 6, 2009