John Scalzi: UGH SO MANY STEPS (also me too) — Subium • Bluesky web client

I have yet to have a PDF version of a W9 form allow me to fill it in completely without telling me some portion of the thing will not allow a text field and/or signature. It's a real fucking pain in the ass, is what it is.

My usual hack for this nonsense is to convert it to a word document and then back to a PDF. That usually works for me.

UGH SO MANY STEPS (also me too)

I have never understood the whole thing where the fields that THEY SAY THEY WANT YOU TO FILL IN are LOCKED for reasons. :headdesk:

I've found that Word tends to introduce problematic (and invisible) formatting codes at times -- I tend to just print out the original PDF, scan/OCR it into a fresh PDF, then edit it by hand in Acrobat. When I'm feeling grumpy, I do the scan at really low resolution. . . .

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