<p>Is there anyway to edit the pdf version of the common app and print it out. I want to mail in my app and would prefer if it was typed.
Thanks</p>
<p>You have to purchase Adobe Acrobat.</p>
<p>You should be able to type into the pdf version, although you can't save it that way. So if you're planning on completing your app in more than one sitting, you'd be better off printing a hard copy and filling it out by hand, then typing that into the pdf once everything is in order.</p>
<p>I havent tried this yet, but I got it off a homeschooling list. It came from someone I know to be good at this stuff. There is a new suppliment this year for homeschoolers and it is a pdf. Some of the fields can be filled out as quaere says, but most cannot. </p>
<p>Any form can be scanned into the computer as a jpeg, brought into MS Word,
and then filled out by typing into Word. Here are the instructions (the
authorship of which I've forgotten):</p>
<p>Scan the form and save as a JPEG file.
Open a blank document in Word.
Go to "format", "background", "printed watermark".
Check "picture watermark", then select the saved JPEG file from the location
where you saved it.
Select the scale as 100%, then uncheck "washout."
Under "file", "page setup", "margins", set all the margins to zero.
Under "file", "page setup", "layout", set the header and footer to zero.
When a pop-up screen tells you the margins are outside the printable area,
click "ignore."</p>
<p>Note that when you type, the
watermark will appear washed out, but will print normally. Also, if your
printer gives you a message that the printed material is outside the
boundaries, do not let the printer correct it. If you do, the final
document will be shrunk. Most printers will print the entire document
despite the error message. One more tip - be sure the document is straight
in the scanner. Otherwise, you'll be continually adjusting your typing
lines.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zamzar.com%5B/url%5D">www.zamzar.com</a></p>
<p>You're welcome :)</p>
<p>Thank you SOOOOOOOO much. This is the best thing ever!</p>
<p>Whoa. That site is amazing.</p>
<p>is there any way you could type in italics on the common app ... ? =/</p>
<p>HEy I was wondering about that too, can we type in Italicized fonts too?</p>
<p>It's better to send in your application online. You will be in the college's database faster and therefore get interview scheduled earlier. When you send in your application by mail, someone needs to enter your information to the school's database manually and scan your application, which could take weeks when they are busy (20,000 applications). My D sent her application to a school on the due date(over xmas break), she received a call for an interview 2 days later, whereas other kids had to wait a few weeks to be notified. Her app was processed even though most people were out over the holidays. Some schools even waive application fee if you do it online, like Colgate.</p>
<p>^^ Good reminder about the app. fee waiver for online submissions.</p>
<p>But with my own computer, I thought all I had to do was to scan a doc, save it in Word, then I can alter it -- work on it -- as long as it's in Word. (An OfficeJet scan feature will assume you want Word as the default application, so it will appear that way initially. Then I think you can save it into a different form.)</p>
<p>That stuff above sounds complicated to me! Egad. When I try to type directly into a .pdf doc, though, I don't get to. (Thought that was part of the point of that format; institutions like to do that with formal docs because it prevents altering the form.)</p>
<p>The on line version of the Common App does not accept italics, underlining, bold, or any other changes to the font. That's a limitation of its web design.</p>
<p>I can’t type onto pdfs. I can’t believe we have to do scanning, conversions into WORD, etc. That seems kind of weird. What are people doing to type directly into the application online??</p>
<p>You are correct - you don’t type onto a pdf. You create a common app account for yourself, add the schools you want to apply to and then fill out the form electronically using the common app website. You can upload pdf files to various parts of your app (essay, additional information) but you don’t actually type onto a pdf at all.</p>
<p>To DMelanogaster- you revived an 3 year old thread, back in the day when only the student portion could be posted online, but many people did not yet trust it.</p>
<p>BTW, if anyone has a need to type into PDFs - check out PDFIll, a cheap way to type into PDFs. Google it.</p>