Fillable pdf displays as flat read-only pdf in PdfViewer

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John asked on 14 Feb 2023, 05:18 PM | edited on 14 Feb 2023, 05:31 PM

I'm trying to use the pdf Viewer control to display pdfs which have fillable forms on them.  When I open the pdf with viewer control the fillable pdfs just show up as a flat pdf (meaning the form fields are not fillable).  Is there a way to get the PdfViewer control to display the pdf as a fillable pdf?  I feel like with tools like RadPdf, this has got to be possible in the browser and would be surprised if there wasn't a way to do this with our Kendo controls.

Ultimately, I want to submit that filled in pdf back to the server to be saved back to the database.

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Stoyan
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answered on 17 Feb 2023, 01:33 PM

Hi John,

Being able to implement editing into the PDFViewer is related to a larger set of functionalities that are implement by an Annotation layer.

Such a layer is quite complicated to implement. Nevertheless in our Feedback Portal their is an open request for such a feature. For this reason I have voted on your behalf for it.

You can follow the Feature Request as it is going to receive updates, if it enters our planning.

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Stoyan
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