Guides
Guides to fillable PDF forms
How to turn a flat or scanned PDF into a form people can fill in: with free tools, with Acrobat, or with Fillable.
- How to make a PDF fillable without Acrobat
Free with LibreOffice Draw, or quicker with a tool that finds the fields for you. Steps, costs and trade-offs.
- How to convert a scanned form into a fillable PDF
A scan is a picture of a page. How to put real fields over it, free or with detection, and what to check afterwards.
- An Adobe Acrobat alternative for making fillable forms
What Acrobat costs and does well, and what to use instead when you need a form now and then.
- Can you make a fillable PDF in Mac Preview?
Preview fills forms but doesn't make them. What it can do, and free ways on a Mac to make a real fillable PDF.
- PDF form field types, and which one to use
Text, checkbox, radio, dropdown, date and signature fields: what each is inside the PDF and when to use it.
Fillable finds the lines, boxes and checkboxes in your PDF in the browser, lets you fix them, and gives you back a real fillable PDF. Page 1 is free to download (with a small "Made with Fillable" line at the bottom), so you can try it in your own PDF reader. The whole form without that line is $4, once. No account, no subscription.
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