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Dear Yvonne, Here's some notes on how to create forms with Acrobat 6 (full version). I'm not whether form-creating capabilities were similar well-developed in earlier versions. A fairly easy starting-point for a PDF form is to set up the layout in Word, convert to PDF, then activate the fields. As far as I can see a form set up in Word won't convert to PDF with active fields, but I may be wrong about this. Once you have a form layout converted to PDF, here's what you do to create input fields: - Go to Tools | Advanced Editing | Forms - Select the text field tool - this is more complicated than radio buttons etc., so once you get the idea of what you do with this one, the other types of field will appear simple. - Draw a selection area where you want the text field to be. When you have done this, a red bounding box should appear round the area, and the text field properties box should appear onscreen. If it doesn't, right-click on the field's bounding box. - In the properties box, the following settings are most likely to be required: Appearance | Font size: default is Auto, and this can come out very large. Set to a fixed size - 10 or 12 is usually right. Font: remember that Arial Narrow is an excellent choice if space for input is restricted. Options | check multiline on unless you really want the input for the field to be restricted to a single line of text. These are the items which most commonly need changing. Hope that's a bit of help. Jos - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Yvonne Strobel Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PDF] filling out pdf forms on-line The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ Greetings, I am a novice at this pdf "thing" so please be patient with me. I am sometimes able to type information on-line on forms that have been saved in pdf format and then print the completed form. An example would be the IRS forms. How is this done? I would like to put some scholarship applications on a web page. These forms would be pdfs. What does one do to make these pdfs able to be filled out on-line? I am most grateful for any help! LHS secretary To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
