Wkhtmltopdf: Forms not fillable

Created on 11 Jan 2017 · 4Comments · Source: wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf

Hello,
thanks for creating this great tool!!!

I used an old version of wkhtmltopdf (0.10 Rc1, on ubuntu 12.04) to transform HTML forms into PDF forms that can be filled. That works. Now, I want to switch to 0.12.4. Everything else works, but the form fields are read only now. What can I do? I use
--enable-forms --encoding UTF-8.

Fields look like this:
<td>Date:</td><td><input id="text4" name="text4" size="38" type="text"></td>

Thanks,
Ernst

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Very similar problem here (Windows OS).

The following form elements are not editable in Adobe Reader/Acrobat (editable in Chrome).

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>TestForm</h1>
    <form id="form1" name="form1">
        <input type="text" id="t1" name="t1" value="t1">
        <textarea name="t2" id="" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Command used: ./wkhtmltopdf.exe --enable-forms ./testForm.html ./testForm.pdf
wkhtmltopdf version: 0.12.4 (with patched qt).
wkhtmltopdf version: 0.12.5-dev-b3ca2e3 (with patched qt).
Adobe Reader version: 11.0.06.
Chrome version: 60.0.3112.113.

Vagelis-Prokopiou on 31 Aug 2017

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Hi Ernst,

I have the same problem with Acrobat Reader, but not with Osx Preview, do you have the same?

zavagli on 8 Jul 2017

Very similar problem here (Windows OS).

The following form elements are not editable in Adobe Reader/Acrobat (editable in Chrome).

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>TestForm</h1>
    <form id="form1" name="form1">
        <input type="text" id="t1" name="t1" value="t1">
        <textarea name="t2" id="" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea>
    </form>
</body>
</html>