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Fill in a PDF form

Quill scans the document for its form definition and puts a live input over every field it finds, so you tab through the form the way its author intended instead of guessing where the text should sit.

How to fill in a pdf form

  1. 1

    Open the form

    Load the PDF. Fields that carry a form definition are detected as the document is parsed.

  2. 2

    Switch to Fill form fields

    The form layer appears over the page, with an input positioned on each field.

  3. 3

    Work through it

    Type into text fields, tick checkboxes, choose radio options, and pick from dropdowns and list boxes — including ones that accept several selections.

  4. 4

    Download the completed form

    Export produces a PDF with your answers in place, ready to send on.

Only genuine form fields are detected

This works on PDFs with a real interactive form definition — the kind produced by Acrobat, LibreOffice or a form builder. A scanned sheet with printed boxes has no fields to find, however much it looks like a form.

There is a fallback for flat forms

When a document has no field definition, the text tool does the job: place a text box on each line and type. Less convenient than tabbing between fields, but it produces the same finished PDF.

Field types beyond plain text

Checkboxes, radio groups, dropdowns and multi-select list boxes are all handled, not just single-line text — so forms that branch on a choice still behave correctly.

Questions

The PDF almost certainly has no interactive form definition — it is a flat page that looks like a form. Use the text tool to type onto the lines instead.

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