How To Build PDF Forms In Adobe Acrobat 1 of 14

Introduction to building PDF forms with Adobe Acrobat Pro.

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welcome to building PDF forms
my name is Jim Healy and I'm the founder
and CEO
reform rhetoric there are two types as
PDF forms
one is called an ac reform and the other
is called the designer for
neck reform is a form that's built in
Adobe Acrobat Professional
a designer for is built in a tool called
Adobe designer
this presentation will focus on ac
reforms
created using Adobe Acrobat Professional
PDF forms
have some unique strengths first Boer
there's broad user access over one
billion people
have downloaded the free Adobe Reader
secondly Adobe
PDF provides pixel perfect printing
with this means is that when somebody
prints out a form
if they need to print out your for it's
going to be pixel perfect
its gonna render exactly the way you
intended it to
this is ideal performs that have legal
I'm ramifications to how they look
graphically
PDF forms
support field formatting without
programming
and Adobe Acrobat Professional when you
lay fields down
onto your PDF you can get those fields
to look exactly the way you want and you
can format them with colors
and set the field types without
programming this is a great feature
the Expedia forms in excellent tool for
the beginner
PDF form support
password protection if you need to put a
password on your for
you can set a password so that only
people you want
can open them PDF support multimedia
this means that you can have attachments
audio and video and flash inside your
forms
to enrich the form experience now
if somebody has Adobe acrobat standard
they can open up a PDF form and they can
save it locally
with the data in it to the desktop if
they have the free Adobe Reader
they're not going to be able to do that
but there's something called
reader extensions this is something that
formatter can offer
and what this does is it turns on a
switch in the PDF document
so that when the document hits the free
Adobe Reader
someone can do local saving I love
the PDF form with the data in it and
finally
PDF scan support digital signatures
if somebody has Adobe Acrobat
war if the form has been reader extended
you can use digital signature
war a digital signature pad that's a pad
very similar to the kind of pads you see
when you go into a retail store
and you can digitally signed the
document an additional signature
is legally binding
the recommended software to create PDF
forms
is Adobe Acrobat Professional a campy
adobe acrobat standard because it
doesn't allow you to create form fields
must be Adobe Acrobat Professional we
recommend
using version 6.0 her about
the main reason we recommend 6.0 is for
backwards compatibility