Trying to fill out pdf form cannot expand text field (URGENT)?

Question

I'm trying to fill out a pdf form for school, but cannot expand the text field to accomodate all my writing. How do I go about doing this? Thank you!

Answer 1

The school evidently wants your answer to be in the field they provided, so rewrite. (Or get a pdf editor [Foxit Editor is pretty cheap] and hope that the file is editable.)

Answer 2

Add Text To Pdf Form

Answer 3

Even if you hack your current PDF, you can't be sure it will work through the system.



Strings always have a maximum size and using a string longer than expected could even crash some applications/systems.



Even if your text is accepted by the program, when it gets stored to a smaller database field, then a portion will get truncated at the end (in most cases).



No matter what, your best option is too condense your text.

Answer 4

Your cannot do what you want to do with the free Acrobat Reader, that only allows you to do just what it says, read the file. In order to modify and add the fields to the document you have you need a "Professional" or "Standard" version of Acrobat. Even then it will not be as simple as scan and fill out. You would need to build a form, scanning does give you a jump start.