How to use PDF-Xchange Viewer?
 

I have been struggling with this program for weeks.
It is for filling out forms and the result is
very faint characters in the form.

Has anyone found the solution of this mess???

TIA

Re: How to use PDF-Xchange Viewer?
 

Loony wrote:
> I have been struggling with this program for weeks.
> It is for filling out forms and the result is
> very faint characters in the form.
>
> Has anyone found the solution of this mess???
>
> TIA

PDF-Xchange Viewer is a product of Tracker Software.

http://www.tracker-software.com/prod...xchange-viewer

*******

Acrobat Reader should also be able to fill out forms.
As long as the security setting of the PDF document
allows modification, you should be able to edit and save
the form data you've entered. Have you tried Acrobat
Reader for this job ? How well does it work ?

Paul

Re: How to use PDF-Xchange Viewer?
 

On 28/10/2012 21:42, Paul wrote:
> Loony wrote:
>> I have been struggling with this program for weeks.
>> It is for filling out forms and the result is
>> very faint characters in the form.
>>
>> Has anyone found the solution of this mess???
>>
>> TIA
>
> PDF-Xchange Viewer is a product of Tracker Software.
>
> http://www.tracker-software.com/prod...xchange-viewer
>
> *******
>
> Acrobat Reader should also be able to fill out forms.
> As long as the security setting of the PDF document
> allows modification, you should be able to edit and save
> the form data you've entered. Have you tried Acrobat
> Reader for this job ? How well does it work ?
>
> Paul

Thanks Paul,

I had got that far about a week ago but I still failed.

Here was a response that I had:

================================================== ==============
Thanks for your e-mail.
First please make sure that you have the latest build of our Viewer
(2.5.206): www.tracker-software.com/PDFXVwer.zip
And then please go to Edit -> Preferences -> Colour Management and turn
on the "Use Black point compensation" checkbox.

If this does not help the way your text looks - then please send us a
sample file and a screenshot of how it looks at your end.

Kind Regards,
Stefan Dzhukelov

Support Manager Europe
Tracker Software Products

support@tracker-software.com
www.tracker-software.com

Tel +44 20 8503 8711
Fax +1 250 324 1623
================================================== ===========

By following the above route I had no improvement. The characters
were still too faint. I was able to do a better job with Irfanview.

Thanks again for your interest :-)

Re: How to use PDF-Xchange Viewer?
 

Loony wrote:
> On 28/10/2012 21:42, Paul wrote:
>> Loony wrote:
>>> I have been struggling with this program for weeks.
>>> It is for filling out forms and the result is
>>> very faint characters in the form.
>>>
>>> Has anyone found the solution of this mess???
>>>
>>> TIA
>>
>> PDF-Xchange Viewer is a product of Tracker Software.
>>
>> http://www.tracker-software.com/prod...xchange-viewer
>>
>> *******
>>
>> Acrobat Reader should also be able to fill out forms.
>> As long as the security setting of the PDF document
>> allows modification, you should be able to edit and save
>> the form data you've entered. Have you tried Acrobat
>> Reader for this job ? How well does it work ?
>>
>> Paul
>
> Thanks Paul,
>
> I had got that far about a week ago but I still failed.
>
> Here was a response that I had:
>
> ================================================== ==============
> Thanks for your e-mail.
> First please make sure that you have the latest build of our Viewer
> (2.5.206): www.tracker-software.com/PDFXVwer.zip
> And then please go to Edit -> Preferences -> Colour Management and turn
> on the "Use Black point compensation" checkbox.
>
> If this does not help the way your text looks - then please send us a
> sample file and a screenshot of how it looks at your end.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Stefan Dzhukelov
>
> Support Manager Europe
> Tracker Software Products
>
> support@tracker-software.com
> www.tracker-software.com
>
> Tel +44 20 8503 8711
> Fax +1 250 324 1623
> ================================================== ===========
>
> By following the above route I had no improvement. The characters
> were still too faint. I was able to do a better job with Irfanview.
>
> Thanks again for your interest :-)

The PDFXViewer software, fills out the form with "blue ink".

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2979/filltest.gif

You can go to the preferences, and try changing ink colors
under the "Forms" preference. And see if that makes
a difference.

If a "blue object" is printed on a black & white printer,
a "grid of dots" is used. To make blue, perhaps they'd
use a 60% dot fill. Which makes the letters when printed
on a black & white laser printer, appear a bit "gray" or
"fuzzy".

If you change the color of the fill text to black, no
halftone approximation of "colors" will be used, resulting
in nice solid black letters.

You can see I submitted my screenshot to imageshack.us . That
site doesn't share pictures with all continents. But so far,
I haven't had a complaint from anyone that they can't see the
picture. There are other photo sharing sites, and you can take
a screenshot, carefully crop it to remove personal information,
then post a link to it later like I did in my example.

The form I filled out there, was this one.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf

Because I know the government is a good source of fillable forms.

Paul