On 13 Sep 2012 at 11:23, David Artman wrote:

> I am currently considering this method, using only FM 8 and Acrobat 9 Pro:
>
>   1) Manually place a checkbox glyph into a text frame within an anchor
> frame that is set to "Run Into Paragraph" and aligned right.
>   2) Add some kind of label within the text frame (e.g., "Y", "OK" or
> "Done").
>   3) Copy-and-paste the anchor for that frame at then end of every a new
> para of that type.
>   4) Distill to PDF.
>   5) Open PDF in AcroPro.
>   6) Let the Form Wizard detect the labelled checkboxes and auto-create
> them.
>
> Works, but error-prone in many ways:

David, You may have a look at Shlomo Perets' "FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers" - the Form Assistant. See also the rich set of example PDF forms, in particular Checklist.

Klaus Daube

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