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Author interactive/fillable PDF checklists and e-forms
Form fields -- including text fields, check boxes, radio buttons
-- can be used to create fillable/interactive PDF e-forms and
checklists and are particularly useful to retrieve input automatically.
Form fields are also often beneficial in large documents that
are typically authored in FrameMaker, for example manuals or
workbooks.
Adding form fields manually after creation of the PDF is labor-intensive,
and all work invested will have to be repeated every time the
source documents are updated.
Using FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers & Form Assistant,
you can take advantage of all of FrameMaker capabilities to author
documents that, upon conversion to PDF, will automatically contain
text fields, check boxes, radio buttons and additional controls.
Creating a PDF that uses form fields does not mean that the
document is designed purely for on-screen use. The same document
can serve both for print and online purposes, designed to have
a different output depending on use. For example, printed lines
for quiz answers can replace the fields used for on-screen interaction
such as data entry and selection.
PDF examples (authored with FrameMaker, distilled with TimeSavers+Form
Assistant):
(Note: With Acrobat Professional 8, you can enable
PDFs so that form data can be saved in Adobe Reader) |
