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Creating fillable forms in Acrobat Pro 9

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2010-01-07 23:13:02
kez82
Registered: Jan 7 2010
Posts: 7

Hi Everyone,

I am new to Acrobat Pro 9 and I want to be able to create a form whereby when the user checks a box, more information appears in the form. I have had a search through help and I think it may be something to do with creating subforms or some way of programming whereby depending on what the end user ticks or doesn't tick in the form, more information is appears or disappearsin the form.

I'm not completely computer literate, so information in plain English would be much appreciated!!!

Can you anyone help???

Cheers, Kez82

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Windows
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2010-01-08 07:28:03
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StevenD
Registered: Oct 6 2006
Posts: 368
You can do this in LiveCycle Designer. LiveCycle Designer takes working getting the hang of however. Setting up a check box to display more fields when it is checked would riquire some JavaScript. And you are right about subforms. They make life easier when working with these types of needs in dynamic forms.

Some of the LiveCycle documentation may help in getting questions answered and showing how to do things. There are some very good examples with code that can be copied and pasted. Below are a couple of reference I use.

LiveCycle Designer Scripting Basics
Section 13: Examples of Common Scripting Tasks

Adobe XML Form Object Model Reference
Section A: JavaScript Examples

I also have a book called PDF Forms Using Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer by Ted Padova and Angie Okamoto published by Wiley Publishing.

StevenD

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