crapserK Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 I've been trying to find a way to create a fillable form using Affinity Publisher and haven't been able to find anything. As I create a lot of PDFs that are intended to be filled out by other people (invitations, applications, resumes etc). I would like to be able to make certain fields editable; for people to change names, dates etc. Is this something that will be coming to Publisher at any point? If not, are there any third party programs that would allow me to create a file in Affinity Publisher and then make it editable/interactive so I can still do my work? HeiligerBimBam, Catherine M Evans, William Overington and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 (edited) Hi I wrote the following original post around two hours ago. The linked page has some useful information, so I have left the original post for reference, but my wondering if PagePlus - an older prpgram fron Serif - would do the job is not a practical solution as the software is no longer sold directly by Serif. William ---- The original post. Hi I asked about if PagePlus would do what you are seeking. https://community.serif.com/forum/pageplus/114979/can-pageplus-do-what-is-requested-for-affinity-publisher-in-the-linked-thread-please It depends on which type of computer you are using and what you are trying to do. I hope that this helps. William Edited February 8, 2020 by William Overington Alas, the software considered as a possibiiity is no longer sold directly by Serif. Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crapserK Posted February 8, 2020 Author Share Posted February 8, 2020 Hi there, Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I am using a Mac so even if Page Plus was still being sold, it wouldn't work on my computer. I'm looking into some PDF specific programs such as acrobat to see if I can find a work around as I really enjoy Affinity Publisher. William Overington 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 I have added forms functionality to PDFs with Adobe Acrobat but it is not really a joy to use. Also, there should be more economic third party apps available like PDFPen, but I have not tried those. William Overington 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aphelon Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 right now I'm using Nitro as an alternative to Acrobat ... I got it on Sale for ~100$ so it doesn't come cheap, but definitely cheaper than Adobe Subscription just for Acrobat... I haven't done much Form-Editing (especially non complex) with it, but it's imho no more or less painful than Acrobat ... best you try it for yourself (free Trial) btw. I'd really love to see that as a feature in Publisher... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 8 hours ago, Aphelon said: Nitro as an alternative to Acrobat "compatible exclusively with Windows operating systems, and is therefore not compatible with Mac OS." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aphelon Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 @Fixx sry, i must have overlooked that he uses a Mac ... a good Alternative for OSX might be PDFelement by wondershare ... you'd need the Pro-Licence though to create and edit forms ... I haven't used it myself (just heard about it), but theres a free trial that might be worth a look ... seems like it has some nice functionality with the forms ... I should take a better look at that myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miholinc Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 +1 MrBrooksy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargaz Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 We need this feature please. Interactive pdf is a game changer JeremyTankard, Kjell, blackbird9 and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomonsight Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 +1 being able to export pdfs with form elements would be amazing! JeremyTankard, MrBrooksy, Catherine M Evans and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel_ec Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Absolutely, this sort of feature would help a lot selling more Publisher licences !! JeremyTankard, Kjell, Catherine M Evans and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eluengo Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 +1 Useful and interesting feature, will be welcome when implemented I use https://www.pdfescape.com but is limited and error-prone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine M Evans Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Very much needed, I hope the developers see this and realise the need is out here! MrBrooksy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 11:04 AM, Catherine M Evans said: Very much needed, I hope the developers see this and realise the need is out here! LaraJ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P. A. Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 +1 MrBrooksy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilipK Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 +1 MrBrooksy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NobleValerian Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 A year, at least, for this issue. It's always a little disheartening when something so basic goes for so long without being added. I've recently started having a need for editing and creating PDFs, too. Adobe generally makes this expensive, or incredibly frustrating. I can more or less alter existing PDFs with DeftPDF, but it's also really unpleasant to use. It's even more disheartening when a free program can do things the paid Affinity apps can't... I've found that I can layout and design the PDF in Affinity, export the page (pages) as a PNG, then set it (them) as a background image behind everything in LibreOffice Writer, exactly sized to fill the page and perfectly positioned edge to edge. Then, in Writer I can place all the fillable forms boxes and buttons on top of my design. If I take good notes about where I positioned guides and elements with their sizes in Affinity, then I can specifically size and position all those elements in Writer absolutely perfectly. It's certainly not ideal, but it works. You could also just build out your fillable PDF in Writer... again, for free. Free PDF viewers open up the exported PDF no problem, and let you fill it out. (LibreOffice Draw can import PDFs to let you edit them, but this is incredibly frustrating both in terms of how well it imports elements, and using the tools to make changes.) JeremyTankard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al S Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 The best and cheapest option I have found to date is Wondershare PDF Element Pro. They have a lifetime license for $129. However it does a lot more than this and offers a full suit including OCR, compression and digital signature in the Pro version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Doyle Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 +1 Please add this feature MrBrooksy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faolannus Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 +1 Need this feature. Regularly make pdfs, and most of those pdfs are forms...but I can't make digital forms fillable in affinity. This should be a high priority item. MrBrooksy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt James Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 +1 I'd really value this feature. I run a small business and have to regularly send out forms I need customers to complete like order confirmations. I need to be able to 'put it on a plate' for them by making the document editable, but really don't want to be sending Word docs to do that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Wangstad Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 I need this as well. Will check out Wondershare - I already use their converter and it's great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveTroll Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 I'm going to buy Nitro since I've used it before, but I would have preferred to buy it from affinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico2 Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Hello, having interactive PDF in Affinity Publisher would be great ! I Hope it will come soon 🙂 For me, this is the futur and I would love to do the same with Affinity : https://www.flipsnack.com/fr/interactive-pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empwan Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I think this thread is asking for the same thing as Are we able to get an update on this feature being added or if it's completely out of scope. JeremyTankard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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