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Converting a PDF to a Fillable Form

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2007-11-01 08:38:14
Beazy
Registered: Nov 1 2007
Posts: 2

Ive recieved a form in EMail made by another Dept. Its a standard PDF, one that is printed and filled out with ink and faxed back to us.

Well we need to take this document and make it so people can just click on a box and fill things in and save it and send back to us Via Email. Ive tried lots of tutorials and none of them are much help. There is a single image at the top. Its kind of like this:

First Name: _____________________
Last Name: _____________________
Address:______________________

how do i make it so people can click on the line and 'TYPE' in their info ?

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2007-11-01 19:36:33
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carrimak
Team
Registered: Dec 13 2006
Posts: 165
First of all; you will need Acrobat Professional or another program to make forms. Do a Google search on what makes PDF forms for some ideas.

Then, you will need to make it into a form following the help files and/or tutorials within the program or on this or other sites.

A good book might help. You need to have the right program first through...

Acrobat is probably the program I use most often and I'm learning more every day.

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2007-11-02 10:40:46
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dbrooks
Registered: Sep 6 2007
Posts: 33
I agree with carrimak's suggestion that you'd need Acrobat Professional first. Then you can open your 'standard' PDF and click Forms/Run Form Field Recognition. Acrobat Pro will try to recognize what is meant to be a field on your PDF and automatically convert it. It works fairly well; however, you may have to do a little tweaking to get it just the way you want it. The nice thing is that you can add fields if need be.

Don't know if that helps, but thought I'd throw in my two cents. ;-)

DB
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