u/DulyDully

If you’ve ever used the “prepare a form” feature on adobe, the user experience is horrible.

1: Editing fields causes the app to lag because the editor works with acrofields in place.

2: Create and renaming fields feels tedious

3: Automatic Field Detection gives inaccurate renames for fields.

If you need a fillable form editor, try DullyPDF because:

1: Lag free editor because we use mock drawings of fields on the UI instead of acrofields (and create them on PDF download.

2: Pain free drag and drop field creation (text, button, signature, radio, image, equation and barcode supported fields).

3: Highly customizable, you can edit the global fonts, size and color for the fields with individual field overrides.

4: Send Web Forms for clients to fill forms or download the PDF as flat or editable.

5: Free limits are generous on the site.

If you need to quickly convert a raw pdf to a fillable form, try DullyPDF it uses jbarrow's machine learning algorithm to find field canidates then creates acrofields there with custom field renaming.

While in the editor, you can change the specifc acro field qualitiles, allowing you to choose different fonts, colors and sizes by choosing a global standard and individual field overide. This page explains how it works.

https://preview.redd.it/fudkx9krxz1h1.png?width=1158&format=png&auto=webp&s=025338d4da172561684332dbbed5d8bdfaa92129

Here is an example of a multi-font template using black, times new roman global settings and some field overrides created with DullyPDF. All of the described features are free and unlimited.

Github.

I own a PDF -> Fillable Form webiste DullyPDF the goal of the site is to automatic detect form fields then allow users to refine fields to do whatever they want using acrofields attributes.

This includes: global and individual field overides for fonts, colors and sizes allowing you to make templates with any font color or size.

https://preview.redd.it/hihlpi7hpz1h1.png?width=1158&format=png&auto=webp&s=63fe6046ecb037f3c03c68600a767f8309263ce1

Here is an example of a fillable form using multiple font colors, sizes and styles.

I had a couple users reach out to me and ask if i could add in field calculations so like an excel sheet, fields could depend on others. I'm sure I could do this PDF-native AcroForm calculations... /CO for calculated forms, /AA for field event actions, and /A//AA security caution but it would be a huge headache and take a lot of time and this might not even work in browser viewers but rather my viewer and adobe's only.

Given that I am trying to make a product that can make highly customiziable pdf templates, is it worth adding this feature? It'll take weeks to develop mvp style calculations but I am still leaning towards yes.

Been working on a PDF Fillable Form automation platform, DullyPDF.

Fillable Form Automation:

-It uses jbarrow’s field detection algorithm to auto detect PDF form fields, then renames the fields standardly or based on a database.

-Database remap will rename fields based on file header schemas. This allows you to Search & Fill rows from csv, excel and json file rows. Now you have a reusable template to fill anyone in your database with. The file Search & Fill works in the UI and allows users to download the filled PDFs flat or fillable.

-There is also a user friendly UI to make any tweaks.

Developer Tools:

-If you database map to a json schema, you can cURL this endpoint or write python / node.js code to hit it and get returned the filled PDF. You can also create web forms so clients can receive something similar to a Google form, then you can populate PDFs based on the responses. You can optionally route these web forms into e-signatures with proper Audit logs.