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Creating Acrobat forms

Creating Acrobat forms
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Creating Acrobat forms

Creating Acrobat forms

Once youve converted your form into a PDF, select Tools > Advanced Editing > Forms to insert form controls.


Creating Acrobat forms – Formatting options

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After youve inserted a form field, you can set options for the field such as text alignment, multi-line, scroll long text, or allow rich text formatting.


Creating Acrobat forms – Naming fields

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Make sure you write in a useful name for each field. These names will be used for database connectivity should you implement that feature.

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