You can start with a blank PDF, add the required text and labels in the PDF, and then add form fields to complete the form. For more information, see How to create a form from scratch. When you convert an existing document into a PDF form, Acrobat automatically adds interactive form fields to the form. You can then edit the form to add specialized form fields, such as a drop-down list, list box, or buttons. Certificate-based signature field B. Drop-down list box C.
Text fields D. Automatic message bar E. Check boxes F. Radio buttons G. List box H. Start creating a form from scratch with a blank page. If you want others to sign this form, select the This Document Requires Signatures check box.
The form field auto detection is ON , by default. To change this setting, click the Change link and choose the settings as appropriate. For more information, see Forms preferences. Acrobat creates the form and opens it in the Form Editing mode.
The right pane displays options for editing the form. The toolbar contains form field tools for adding additional fields. Review the form fields Acrobat created. Add fields using the form field tools in the toolbar. Delete, resize, or arrange the fields as needed. You can add any of the following types of form fields:. Add Text field. Encode the input from selected fields and display it as a visual pattern that can be interpreted by decoding software or hardware available separately.
These buttons can be customized with images, text, and visual changes triggered by mouse actions. Present yes-or-no choices for individual items. If the form contains multiple check boxes, the user can typically select as many or few of these as wanted. Digital signature field. Drop-down list. Let the user either choose an item from a pop-up menu or type a value. You can set a form field property that enables the user to enter a custom value.
Display a list of options the user can select. You can set a form field property that enables the user to Shift-click to select multiple items on the list. Radio buttons. Present a group of choices from which the user can select only one item. All radio buttons with the same name work together as a group.
For more information, see How to add form fields and set their values. To change existing text or images, click Edit in the toolbar.
All the text and image fields are enabled for editing. If you don't see the Edit option in the toolbar, update your Acrobat. To test your form, click the Preview button in the toolbar. Previewing a form allows you to view the form the same way the form recipients will and gives you a chance to verify the form.
If you are previewing a form, you can click the Edit button to go back to the edit mode. When your form is complete, save the form, and then click the Close button towards the right end of the toolbar to close form editing. To distribute the form and collect responses, see Distribute PDF or web forms. You can send the form out to be filled in and signed using Adobe Sign. You can add additional Adobe Sign fields from the toolbar.
When alerted that Acrobat removes form fields that Adobe Sign doesn't support, click Next , and then in the subsequent alert, click OK. To add a field to the form, select its icon in the toolbar. Position the pointer where you want to place the field, and click to insert it.
Name the field and designate who is to fill it in or sign it. To set its properties, such as the border color, fill, font, and typeface size, double-click the field.
To preview your changes, click Preview in the upper-right corner. Click Edit to in the upper-right corner to switch back to the edit mode. To distribute the form and collect responses, see Distribute Adobe Sign forms. However, you can extend the rights of a PDF to allow these users to save form data.
Unlike earlier versions of Reader, Reader XI and higher versions of Reader include both the Add Text tool and the ability to save form data. Acrobat users can type in non-fillable forms, add comments, and digitally sign PDFs without extending special rights. If you are editing the form, click the cross icon next to the Preview button in the upper-right corner. Note the following two points about the use of the Reader Extensions capability for local saving of PDF forms called extended documents :.
Number of deployed extended documents. An Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro customer can send an extended document to an unlimited number of recipients for them to fill in. For example, an Acrobat customer can post an empty form template on a web page that allows users to fill in and save PDF forms locally. An unlimited number of people can access the template. Also, the Acrobat customer can collect unlimited number of responses from the filled-in form. Number of recipients of the extended document.
An Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro customer can send an extended document to unlimited number of recipients. The Acrobat customer can send unlimited number of copies of the extended document to unlimited number of recipients and collect unlimited number of responses from the filled-in form.
However, the nature and formatting of spreadsheets make them unwieldy and impractical to use as a form that you distribute to people. Fortunately, Adobe Acrobat, the top-of-the-line PDF creation suite, has several tools that allow you to make fields with automatic computations in them.
Aside from the above, PDF forms can be useful for performing risk assessments, creating membership forms, or even making a simple offline personality test. To start, go into Acrobat, and create a form. From here, you can start a new form from scratch, or base it off of an existing PDF or document file that you already have. Importing a file will give you the option to populate boxes with fillable fields automatically.
Whether or not you do this is unimportant, as you can always edit and create these fields later. Above is a simple order form with seven fields: Quantity 1 to Quantity 5, where each field corresponds to different item quantities; Total Quantity; and Total Price.
We want the five quantities to be fillable fields that users can input themselves, while the Total Quantity and Total Price fields are automatically computed. To make sure a field is fillable, double-click it, or right-click and go to Text Box Properties, and leave the Read-Only box unchecked.
Because all of our quantity boxes are fillable, we need to create a computation for our Total Quantity field. From here, we can do one of two things: you can select the second option to pick one of the preset calculations, such as sum, product, or average; or you can choose the third option to create a simplified field notation formula.
Select all the fields you want to include, then click OK. Next, we want to create a computation for our Total Price field. We need to create a series of equations. To do that, we can use the Simplified Notation format. For simple arithmetic computations, this formula box works very similarly to an Excel formula box. You can also place computations in parentheses to segment them. For reference, here are the modifiers for basic arithmetic calculations:.
For this particular example, we want to multiple each quantity with their respective price. Inputting the above formula will multiply each quantity by their respective price, and will generate the final price. Save your document as a standard PDF file, and it should be a fillable form on any document viewing software, including web browsers. Because the calculation system in PDF files is based around Javascript, you can do a lot of advanced things with it. Use Google Fonts in Word. Use FaceTime on Android Signal vs.
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