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Am I the only one who hates these fake PDFs?
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https://travel.gc.ca/docs/child/consent-letter-2123.pdf I was exactly in your position before I had to use this document! I was confident that a government form would not be this complicated but a big part of my frustration was that I was trying to solve the issue as if it was a PDF problem but PDF is an open standard and there are plenty of excellent FOSS tools and programs that can do anything you can imagine with a PDF. This form is an imposter!
Not a government form, but I had to convert one of the forms in my workplaces hiring package so that new hires could even open it.
Fortunately easy to do it you have Adobe installed, but it does require it for the initial conversion.
Where you able to convert the form into an open format and also preserve all the original functionality? If this is true then there is absolutely no excuse for these forms not being offered in alternative formats. There are some tools that will let you 'flatten' an XFA form to a static PDF but this destroys all the dynamic parts of the original.
No, it got rid of all the dynamic parts. For my purposes they weren't needed, as it was mostly for a poorly implemented embedded print button, and locking fields to certain data types.
Completely pointless, because most people here literally just print the pdf and fill it by hand still.