[WEB4LIB] IE on OSX and pdf fill-in forms

[Randy Souther]

> 1. It seems that the one machine in the Library running OSX does not permit
> users to fill in the PDFform in IE. Has anyone else encountered this?

Mac OS X's graphical interface is based partly on PDF technology (which is
why any OS X application can save to pdf format; see
http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/graphics.html).

I suspect you're having a problem because the default image-viewing
application in OS X, "Preview," is also a basic pdf viewer, but without all
of the extra features of acrobat reader, such as forms fill-in. When you
download a pdf file, Preview.app picks it up instead of Acrobat Reader.

To change this default, click once to highlight the pdf file in question,
and choose "Show Info" from the File menu. In the resulting Info window,
choose "Open with application" from the drop-down menu, and pick "Acrobat
Reader" instead of "Preview."

To make this the global default, click the "Change All" button and all pdf
files will open with Acrobat Reader rather than Preview.

I tried your pdf, and the forms fill-in worked fine in Acrobat.

Randy Souther
Reference Technology Librarian
Gleeson Library | Geschke Center
University of San Francisco