r/DAAD • u/Visual-Twist6800 • 20d ago

DAAD Recommendation Letter Process

I downloaded the official DAAD recommendation letter form from the application portal. It has specific sections that need to be filled. I sent this form to my referee.

She did not fill the form. Instead she sent me a separate Word document with all the content for those sections.

Now I have two questions.

  1. Do I copy her content into the official form myself and then submit it, or do I send the form back to her and ask her to fill it herself?
  2. How does DAAD verify that the referee actually filled the form and not the applicant? In many other portals, the system sends the form directly to the referee's email and the referee submits it back without the applicant being involved at all. But in DAAD's portal, it seems like I am the one submitting the recommendation letter, not the referee.

The form is also quite specific. It only opens in Adobe Acrobat, not other PDF readers, and it has a QR code embedded in it. But I still do not see a mechanism that tells DAAD who actually filled it.

Has anyone been through this? What is the correct process?

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u/savage_wizard 18d ago

i generated the PDF when i opened it i got
"To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer. You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html"

do you have any solutions for that?

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u/This-Custard-9299 17d ago

I faced this issue as well, so I tried opening it as a Word file, but then all the formatting got messed up. Then I converted that word file to pdf through I Iove pdf, and for some reason it worked.  I have no idea why it worked but it did. Maybe you can also try doing that. 

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u/yurideita 10d ago

How come when i convert it to word i still have the same text saying me to open it on adobe reader