New version of Mozilla Firefox now has built-in PDF viewer. Is it good or bad? Probably it is very good, when you need to view simple PDF documents, like manuals or instructions. When you need to have full PDF power, like scripting, forms, etc, there is no better solution, than original Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. Here we’ll learn how to return Firefox to its default status and use Acrobat Reader to work with PDF files. It’s only couple of...

Here is what Adobe Reader on mobile devices can do with PDF forms and how it all can be integrated with SharePoint: The two great technologies — PDF forms and SharePoint — have limited integration out of the box so far. Fortunately, PDF SharePoint overcomes this obstacle: First, it allows you to integrate PDF forms with the SharePoint platform, so you can fill-in forms with free Adobe Reader; Secondly, you can configure synchronization of...

Anonymous forms submit is the perfect solution in all those cases when you need to propagate your PDF business forms to users that otherwise do not have access to your SharePoint environment, such as: sending PDF forms by e-mail; providing your partners and clients with various business forms; online application forms; online forms for surveys and requests and many more To be able to submit PDF forms to the SharePoint library from outside of...

There are many different business cases that require a PDF Form to contain repeatable sections with data. While it is possible to design a PDF Form with repeatable section and fields, it is not yet possible to map the repeatable fields to a specific SharePoint column. This is one of the most common inquiry we receive from our users, so we prepared a little workaround. The following image shows our PDF Form structure: The idea is very simple: we...

Recently one of our customers asked us if it is possible to show different form content for different SharePoint user groups. The answer is YES, and it requires just a little setup. The main idea is to show different view for each user group and in this article we’ll see how to select different views if our current user is part of Owners group. Step 1: Create two views: For this case we have prepared two views: “Default” and...