Hello,
I'm looking into upgrading to Acrobat 8 Professional to design forms in the workplace. One problem I've hit is that staff need to paste a MS Word table into the form. Is there a way of doing this? Thanks
Assuming staff doesn't work on the PDF form and the table can't be introduced in the Word document, you don't have an easy solution. Tables can't be copied as tables in one PDF document (or from a Word file) and pasted into a PDF.
There are several things you can do to paste tables in a PDF that require some workarounds. You can create a graphic of the table, export to PDF and use the TouchUp Object tool to copy/paste the table.
You could also use a JavaScript and add a table as a template to the form and use the Overlay option when spawning a page from a template.
My choice would be to export the table to PDF, open the PDF in Adobe Illustrator and copy the table in Illustrator. Open the PDF form and paste the table. This option preserves all the type attributes.
ted
The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.
There are several things you can do to paste tables in a PDF that require some workarounds. You can create a graphic of the table, export to PDF and use the TouchUp Object tool to copy/paste the table.
You could also use a JavaScript and add a table as a template to the form and use the Overlay option when spawning a page from a template.
My choice would be to export the table to PDF, open the PDF in Adobe Illustrator and copy the table in Illustrator. Open the PDF form and paste the table. This option preserves all the type attributes.
ted
The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.