Wordpress - displaying fillable pdf files?

[Diomed]

Guys,

I know you can display .pdf files on page in Wordpress via Google Docs Embedder plugin.

But is there any way that you know of to display a "fillable" or "editable" pdf file on page?

Problem I'm having is a lot of these submissions are using special characters and more importantly smart script, which can't be copied and pasted through regular forms.

Which then leads to the question how to submit the new fillable pdf..

I'm stumped, guess I'm just going to have to do a file attachment on the form. But would like to avoid this if possible.

[Paz]

Can you not encode the special chars? There are pdf libraries that can generate a pdf but they start with a simple text area and a submit button. What kind of chars are they?

[Diomed]

Originally Posted by Paz

Can you not encode the special chars? There are pdf libraries that can generate a pdf but they start with a simple text area and a submit button. What kind of chars are they?

Special Characters really aren't the issue as most forms can handle those just fine.. the SmartScript characters are.. those are like the stuff you see in complex math equations and other science oriented algorithms, etc.

The submittable forms like ninja, gravity, quforms, etc.. just don't have the kind of word document style formatting abilities that I need.

These are students who are copying and pasting parts of their submissions which contain the SmartScript from their own existing word docs, spreadsheets, pdf files, etc.

[Paz]

Ah OK you need something like LaTex - fuck I haven't used that in over 20 years!

Google does an online version with an API (click here)