PDF Fill

One of the most powerful and most popular features of Acrobat is its ability to create interactive forms to collect data no other program makes it this easy to create and distribute forms for any purpose in this chapter we'll explore how to build forms properly and then distribute them both by email as well as via Acrobat comm then we'll learn how to collect the responses and analyze them in Acrobat as well as in other programs like Microsoft Excel nobody likes to fill out forms and worse than filling out a form is trying to figure out what somebody else wrote in the form in the first place then there's the matter of dealing with the actual data how do you use it how do you get it into your data workflow turning flat paper forms into digital fillable forms can save hours of time and thousands of dollars of cost managing manually entered data that's why it's so amazing that Acrobat gives you the forms wizard a tool that can convert a normal flat form into a fillable PDF form almost instantly if your form was created on a computer and you still have the original file you're a step ahead of the game and it doesn't even matter what program created the form in the first place the base form can be created in almost any program that can export or print to the PDF format the samples used in this lesson were built in Word 2010 and Adobe InDesign cs5 no special features were used in creating the forms they're basically just words and lines exported to the PDF format but before you start working to create a new form layout you should know that acrobats form wizard doesn't treat every form design equally to...