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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by phonon on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:27PM (#19820962)
They used Livecycle (XFA) forms. It's not part of the latest PDF standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFA

Here is a plain Acroform version :-)

https://send.firefox.com/download/3d2da3ccd62d4ce9/#CJRCa5XO...

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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by kxyvr on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:44PM (#19821115)
Ha! Finally an answer to what these forms are. Thanks! Speaking of which, what software did you use to make the conversion? It might be nice to pass this information along to the agency to see if they'd be willing to convert all their forms.
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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by phonon on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:08PM (#19821319)
Save file as Static PDF Form from Livecycle/AEM. (That means advanced capabilities like tables that can "grow" are removed.) Open in Acrobat Pro. Extract the pages (Shift-rightclick the thumbnails on the left side) to a new PDF.

If you asked Adobe, they would say this is not possible. :-)

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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by justbaker on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:07PM (#19821308)
>It might be nice to pass this information along to the agency to see if they'd be willing to convert all their forms.

If you see a way to, make them pay for it; there is money to be made.

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