I'm a designer who is new to creating forms in Acrobat. I'm currently using Mac Acrobat Pro 7.0 to add form fields to a client's existing PDF. They want patterns to be auto-corrected - and they also want some special formatting - like for phone numbers to have "-" automatically entered in (###-###-####). Same thing with SS #, and custom patterns for particular ID # fields, etc. (like XX-######)
There seems to be only limited control over text fields in Acrobat 7 pro. Under the text field properties, for example, - I set the format to "phone number" and save - but this seems to do nothing when I close, open in Preview, and fill out the form. I can actually add anything I want in there and in any pattern. What am I missing? Do I need a custom validation script? Do I need to upgrade to 8.0 (does the new version have more options for form fields and some kind of built in validation script)? I'm kind of out of my element here.
There is nothing else interactive going on with this form, BTW. It will be on a CD and the user will fill it out - print it and fax it (yes - I know it can do a lot more - but the goal is to have the forms neatly filled out to prevent errors - the end users are low technology people sometimes without net access.)
Thanks for any help.
-Tory
Select the Text Field tool; and set up your field.
Then; under Properties; select Formatting.
Then, select "Special" and under that tab is a phone number choice.
When you select that, it will add parentheses around the area code, and put the hyphen where that suppposed to go.
Hope this helps!
carrimak
Acrobat is probably the program I use most often and I'm learning more every day.