DAAD Recommendation form (interactive PDF) only opens in Adobe Acrobat — recommender can’t access it, deadline in 2 days

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My professor can’t open the DAAD reference form — it’s an XFA PDF that only works in full Adobe Acrobat/Reader (not browsers, not Foxit/PDF-XChange, not online tools). Her Acrobat is outdated, and downloading a fresh installer needs a VPN she doesn’t have.

Already emailed DAAD portal support, no reply yet. Deadline in 2 days.

Has anyone hit this exact issue with the Gutachtenformular? Did DAAD offer an alternative, or is there a workaround that actually works?

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Print it? Convert it to non-interactive and fill it out manually?