PDF files are used to share important documents, and most of them are read-only documents. However, there are occasions we need to collect or submit information and data in the term of PDF for personal or other reasons, that’s why we want to make some of our PDFs into fillable. Fillable PDF Form VS Flat PDF Form A fillable PDF Form, also called as interactive PDF, is a collect of PDF form fields for collecting information from form users, it contains form fields, comments, or other interactive elements that you can select or fill in. When you open it in a PDF reader, there would be a cursor pointer flashing in the form fields after you click the field, you can directly fill in. A flat PDF Form, also called as non-interactive PDF, has no form fields, comments or any other interactive elements to select or fill in. When you open it in a PDF reader, there would be no cursor pointer flashing, you cannot fill the form. But very often, we need to take a flat PDF or a Word doc as the template for a fillable PDF form.

How to Create Fillable PDF Form with Adobe Acrobat? Adobe, creator of PDF format can always equip its users the most powerful solution to manage a PDFs. If you are using an Adobe Acrobat, you should try following steps to create fillable PDF form with ease. • Run Adobe Acrobat DC on your computer.

This is not the first time I get a PDF with fillable fields but when displaying informations. How to create with Pages a PDF with fillable forms?

• Go to Tools>Prepare Form. • Then select the file you want to create as fillable PDF form. Adobe will automatically detect and create form fields.

If Adobe doesn’t detect a particular form field, manually add according to your needs by using the toolbars above the interface, or adjust the layout with tools on the right panel. If you want to tweak the properties of text field, right click on the text field and tweak as needed.

• To make sure all the filleable text fields can work properly, you need to preview before saving. If OK, save the fillable PDF form. How to Create a Fillable PDF Form without Adobe Acrobat? If you don’t have Adobe, there are still options to create fillable PDF forms, just try alternative Adobe PDF editors.

Here we pick 2 affordable and efficient PDF editors for Mac users and Windows users respectively. To create fillable PDF form on Mac, the software furnitures a full set of tools you need to easily and efficiently. You can add form fields, comments, notes, or shapes (Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Circle,) to the PDF, highlight, cross-out, underline text, and draw an arrow or a line. What’s more you can use it to read, electronically sign,, split, compress, encrypt, and with advanced OCR technology.