Please help, Adobe 5.0 Acrobat and job apps??

[Kruechief]

I know many of you are way savvy and this is something I am having major problems with.

As some of you may be aware, I was put on lay off status from my state job. Friday was the last day Oak Creek in Albany was open :depressed: .

Anyway, I am not going to take it without a fight and I am feverously putting out applications and resumes :smile: .

I have Adobe 5.0 Acrobat and want to fill out the applications that organizations provide on line (most are "pdf" files). I download them to my "jobs" file and then open them with Adobe 5.0. Some of them I can't fill out though and it is frustrating because keyboarding the responses would make it easier and more professional looking.

Does anyone know how to put text into a pdf? Is there some kind of lock in some pdf documents that I need to toggle (like in some word documents)?

I got Adobe 5.0 Acrobat just for doing these applications and for saving other documents. It is difficult for me to understand but I know it is a powerful program. It seems like I should be able to fill out the lines for responses in these documents. Do I need to create some kind of "text" box for each response?

Help please??

Loren

[The Fishing Geek]

They would have had to have created the PDF file specifically with the ability to fill it out within Acrobat. Unfortunately, if they didn't do that when they created the document then you won't be able to automagically fill it out that way.

I wish that more companies would go this route. It would make job apps much easier to submit.

[lost_sailor]

Geek is precisely correct, if it's not a "fillable" form, all you can do is print it. Not your fault!

Good luck, I hate job hunting more than work!

[STGRule]

This might be too much work and I've only done it once, but if you have a scanner and an optical recognition program you can print out the PDF file, scan it and save into a Word-type program. Then fill it out. Print it and send it. It is a little time consuming but it works.

You also might try just copy and paste into a Word-type program. Haven't tried that but it might work. In the toolbar for Acrobat is a text select tool that changes the hand to a pointer.

[ 03-16-2003, 09:42 AM: Message edited by: STGRule ]

STG,
Adobe Acrobat won't cut and paste, I've been there. I have an IBM Selectric that works after I print them out. I HATE ACROBAT!!!!

[STGRule]

Keta: I have cut and pasted things out of Acrobat before, but it was just text.

I just tried it and it worked with text. Its copy and paste, not cut and paste. My bad.

[ 03-16-2003, 10:12 AM: Message edited by: STGRule ]

[The Fishing Geek]

There is a setting in Acrobat that will allow you to select text, which would then allow you to copy and paste it (you're not cutting, as it stays there, ya know).

True, printing the PDF, then scanning, then OCRing, then opening in Word and adding form fields would do the job, but only if you are going to use the form a LOT, or want to impress someone with your skillz. Otherwise, you can simply print the form, fill out the generic stuff, copy it a bunch of times, and then only fill out the job-specific stuff each time. That'd save some time.

[Kruechief]

Thanks everyone!

Carrie, my other half, is taking the hard copies to work where she can scan them with the recognizer thingy majig.

Verrry technical stuff

Loren

Geek,
Do they have to set it so you can cut and paste when they make the document or am I just missing something?

[brshooter]

Keta,
Just click on the "Text Select Tool". It is the button with the "T" on it up on the tool bar. Then highlight the text you want to copy and do your thing.

[STGRule]

Warning; It only works with plain text. The form (boxed) stuff has to be selected different and I can't figure that one out yet (I can select it and copy, but not paste it yet)