Web Browser Don't Save Editable PDF's Data

[jajabor007]

When filling out the form and saving it in the browser the pdf is saved but when reopened, the data is gone. So I want something that forces browser to open the pdf with their installed pdf viewer program in OS rather than opening in web browser. In that case they can save the pdf in their computer directly.

To solve this issue we make automatically download the PDFs but this does not work if the user has set in the browser to open the PDF on it and not on the PDF viewer of the Operation System.

Please suggest me how can we solve the issue.

[try67]

What browser?

[jajabor007]

Mostly Safari. But the users are from different community with different types of browsers.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Most browsers now have their own PDF plugins, which are unrelated to Adobe. Unfortunately, many of these plugins are sub-par, especially when it comes to form fields.

[Test Screen Name]

You can't control this. Personally I think the days of useful PDF forms are almost at an end.

[jajabor007]

Is there any way we can apply to pdf file that will force browser to open that pdf file with acrobat rather than browser?

[try67]

No.