Adobe Acrobat 8 How-Tos: 125 Essential Techniques

Chapter Thirteen. Creating Forms and Buttons

As part of a modified approach to form design, Acrobat 8 Professional offers a simplified interface for creating form fields that lets you switch from design to active views for both constructing and testing a form. For both Windows and Mac, you can construct forms using the Forms tools. If you are working with Windows, you have access to the Adobe Designer 8 program, a separate forms design program integrated as part of Acrobat 8 Professional.

You have the same flexibility in designing forms in Acrobat as you do in creating and designing PDF documents of other types. You can design a form in a number of different ways. If you have an existing form created in another program or on paper, scan it into ...