Affinity Photo - Placing Form Filled PDFs

[BigEvilDoer]

Hello.

I would like to place form filled PDF's into Affinity Publisher 2.1.
When I select the PDF I wish to place, it shows that the forms are filled in the low-res preview.  When I place the PDF, the filled forms are not showing - it's showing as being unfilled.

Any suggestions as to how I can get it show the filled information?

Thanks in advance.

 

[v_kyr]

Welcome!

Which is finally meant, Affinity Photo as this threads title says, or Affinity Publisher? - However, I assume APub is meant here.

7 hours ago, BigEvilDoer said:

When I select the PDF I wish to place, it shows that the forms are filled in the low-res preview.

That's just a showup of an embedded thumb image preview file and no completely rendered PDF file.

7 hours ago, BigEvilDoer said:

When I place the PDF, the filled forms are not showing - it's showing as being unfilled.

I can imagine that the Affinity PDF input parser doesn't support and take forms into account here when importing PDFs, same as (AFAIK) it doesn't support the generation/creation of PDF forms for export.

8 hours ago, BigEvilDoer said:

Any suggestions as to how I can get it show the filled information?

If you need those in some editable parsed-in state (?), then you would probably have to get those form intact converted into some other supported file format for import. See therefor ...

• Placing content - APub

... or use some other tools instead here.

[walt.farrell]

You will also find that comments made in PDF files are not supported when Opening or Placing PDF files, either. I think the form data is another aspect of this.

The image and text layers are supported, but probably nothing beyond that.

[BigEvilDoer]

Sorry for my tardy reply...

But thank you guys so much. Guess I'll just have to keep inserting the form filled file into Acrobat.