# Adobe Acrobat help needed **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 28, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-acrobat-help-needed/443066 "2008-03-28T16:54:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-acrobat-help-needed/443066/1 "2008-03-28T16:54:45Z")
I’m trying to fill out [this](http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/publications/monitoring/fifra/noaform.pdf) form online- would rather not print it out and type it- and have no problem except when I get to box 15 and try to fill in the date, when I try it only accepts numbers, no letters or slashes, so I try and input either 122507 or 12252007 and when I do it places either commas or periods between the numbers. Anyone know what I’m doing wrong? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-acrobat-help-needed/443066/2 "2008-03-28T17:25:34Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Anyone know what I’m doing wrong? [/QUOTE] You are doing nothing wrong. The Adobe PDF form was improperly coded when it was created. You may want to notify the EPA of the form error. Just don’t hold your breath with the agency getting it fixed in a reasonable time. You might want to right-click on the form to see if you can download it to your computer before completing it. It might work, and then again, it might not. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-acrobat-help-needed/443066/3 "2008-03-28T18:37:29Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster] You are doing nothing wrong. The Adobe PDF form was improperly coded when it was created. You may want to notify the EPA of the form error. Just don’t hold your breath with the agency getting it fixed in a reasonable time. You might want to right-click on the form to see if you can download it to your computer before completing it. It might work, and then again, it might not. [/QUOTE] Thanks- guess I’ll have to break out the typewriter for those lines. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-acrobat-help-needed/443066/4 "2008-03-28T18:45:07Z")
Or fill it out on the computer and put a note about Box 15 in the Remarks section. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-acrobat-help-needed/443066/5 "2008-03-28T19:09:07Z")
Or you could just fill it out with the periods. 12.20.05 or whatever- I’m pretty sure they’ll be able to figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-acrobat-help-needed/443066/6 "2008-03-28T19:15:46Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Or you could just fill it out with the periods. 12.20.05 or whatever- I’m pretty sure they’ll be able to figure it out. [/QUOTE] The problem there is that it puts the periods in for me, and not in correct date format- 03/28/2008 comes out as 32.808 or 3,282,008, depending on how entered ☹ . ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-acrobat-help-needed/443066/7 "2008-03-28T19:25:09Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] The problem there is that it puts the periods in for me, and not in correct date format- 03/28/2008 comes out as 32.808 or 3,282,008, depending on how entered ☹ . [/QUOTE] I see what you mean. I tried downloading it but it blocks the same characters when loaded from my HD too. You might try opening it with [Foxit Reader](http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php) Otherwise, I guess you’ll have to put the date in the Remarks box.