On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Michael Kraft wrote:
> ... I wonder why the U.S. Postal Service (e.g.) has chosen Adobe's
> proprietary format, thereby making it more difficult for customers who
> don't run Acrobat to use their (i.e., the P.O.'s) fill-in forms.
I can't imagine why *anyone* uses it.
Even different Adobe products (Acrobat, Reader (vers 6, 7, ..), Acrobat
Pro, Adobe browser plug-ins) all suffer from "PDF Form" bugs.
Thomas Schneider's advice is golden:
*Don't ever type content directly into a PDF Form. *(unless it is very
brief and you don't mind re-keying it a few times)
Type it into a text editor, save it, and then paste it into the form. The
odds are high that the form will delete it, truncate it arbitrarily at some
point in the future, or otherwise mangle your work by switching to a font
that changes the truncation limit without any way of controlling it.
Sometimes it will appear to survive in the form for a while until another
person opens it in a different version of some Adobe reader that clips your
content in bizarre ways. If that intermediate person forwards the file
they opened, there is no telling what it subsequently contains...
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