The Portable Document Format is incredibly versatile, and may be enhanced in a variety of ways that add real value and utility to your files.

Let me show you some ways Alternate Office Solutions can enhance your PDF Files.

Tune-Up. Bring your existing PDF collection to AOS for a Tune-Up! We use the latest techniques to enhance and streamline your files so that they consume FAR less bandwidth. You'll save money, gain peace of mind, and end-users of your online and CD-ROM based electronic document collections will enjoy the best possible experience.

Navigation. Find everything you need in a PDF file of any size, in moments. We can add flexible navigation methods to your files including Bookmarks, Thumbnails, Hyperlinks and Named Destinations. You can locate information much more quickly and easily than in print.

Form Fields. We’ll add interactive forms, on-the-fly calculations and more.

Fill-in Forms

If you have Acrobat Reader, you can fill in a form provided it has been made "fillable". Just move the cursor over the form and it will turn into an "I-beam" where you can type.

2. If you have the full Acrobat product ($249) you can add text to any PDF file which is not protected.

All Forms are Not Fillable

A form is fillable if the creator of the form prepared it that way, using Acrobat. For comparison, here are two PDF files of an ever popular U.S. tax form:

To view an ordinary PDF, not fillable click here.

To view a fillable version of the same PDF click here

The only way to tell if you can fill in a form is to try it.  If you can't fill in the second file above, your copy of Acrobat Reader is either too old or broken.  Click here to download that latest version of Adobe Acrobat for free.