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2008-11-24 13:56:32
chitownbabs
Registered: Jul 26 2006
Posts: 3
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I use Adobe Pro V8 and have a few questions.

I am making a fillable form that is two pages. Page two is fillable, page one is not. This form will possibly change colors from red to blue to green to who knows. I do not want to have to recreate page 2 again and again when we change the color on the page so how do I keep the fillable form on page two and use it with the new colors? Do I make each section layers? Then what do I do?

My 2nd question is this

I am making check boxes on the 2nd page in InDesign. I am using Zapf Dingbats to create the boxes with a space and then the text for the box. When I convert it to a fillable form these are not being created to be a check box so I have to use the check box tool to do it. I tried it before as a drawn box but it did not recognize it as fillable so I had to do it using the check box tool.

Is there any suggestions to that problem and how to get them to be fillable?

Thanks, Barb

God whispers in your soul and speaks to your mind. Sometimes when you don't have time to listen,
He has to throw a brick at you. It's your choice: Listen to the whisper, or wait for the brick.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Macintosh
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2008-11-24 14:57:06
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George_Johnson
Expert
Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
1. Simply replace the old pages with the new (Document > Replace Pages). Any annotations (fields, links, comments, etc.) will be retained.2. Are you saying that you're attempting to use the Form Field Recognition feature, but it doesn't recognize the check boxes?

George
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2008-11-25 06:50:31
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chitownbabs
Registered: Jul 26 2006
Posts: 3
If I replace the old document with the new document, then I will lose the fillable section on page 2. I know how to replace, add, delete etc.

My question is this: I have now made this document with layers in InDesign. The fillable form section is one layer, the rest is another layer. When I have to change the color on the form then is all I have to do is be concerned with the color layer and the fillable one will be OK? It will just replace the the colored layer? How do I go about doing that?

2. Yes, I made boxes using a Zap Dingbat font but the forms recognition did not recognize it. What I did in the form is make check boxes over what was there so I have that working fine.

God whispers in your soul and speaks to your mind. Sometimes when you don't have time to listen,
He has to throw a brick at you. It's your choice: Listen to the whisper, or wait for the brick.

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2008-11-25 07:50:57
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
With Acrobat and an Acrobat form, not LiveCycle Designer, one can replace individual pages in a PDF/Form and the form fields and scripts of the origninal form will be ratained. You can name your new background PDF with a different name from the form, so one could create a page with the color of the background as part of the name.

Look under "Document => Replace Pages..." on Acrobat's menu bar.

George Kaiser

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