2023-01-07 16:15:00 • Filed to: Features of Indesign • Proven solutions
Creating a dynamic PDF document is the best way to create an engaging slideshow. You can create a PDF form in InDesign with buttons for playing movies and sound clips, page transition, bookmarks and hyperlinks. Creating forms in InDesign is easy to do. Plus, then you can export them directly to PDF. Wondershare PDFelement - PDF Editor supports InDesign PDF form actions that can be utilized to create engaging forms.
InDesign is a page design software, rather than a professional PDF software. If you would like to design an interactive PDF form professionally, we recommend that you try out PDFelement. Once you have exported your InDesign files to PDF and shared them with others, you may find that you still want to edit them.
Use PDFelement to eliminate errors and make your work look more professional, especially if your clients do not have InDesign installed. Use PDFelement to make corrections, add markups, or even make annotations.
PDFelement enables you to create PDF forms both manually and automatically. The following is a step-by-step process on how to create PDF forms.
Open PDFelement and then click on "Form." Select "Form Field Recognition" to automatically recognize blank fields and tables that can be filled in. You will not be able to view the fillable fields that were created.
If the document you are working on cannot be automatically recognized, you can create the fillable fields manually. In order to do this:
There are two types of forms: interactive PDF forms, which allows you to fill the form directly, and the Non-interactive PDF forms. If the PDF form has interactive form fields, you can fill in the form using the "Hand Tool."
When you move the cursor over an interactive form field, the pointer will either change to a hand icon or a curser icon. The hand icon appears when you move over a text field or a check box. The curser icon displays when you click on the text field. This signifies that you can type in the text field.
If your PDF document is a fillable form, then the process is as follows: Click on "Form" then click on "Data Extraction." This will take you to the option "Extract data from the form field."
InDesign has the specific "buttons and forms" library that will enable you to design and create interactive InDesign forms that you can export to PDF directly if you wish. Creating forms in InDesign requires you to first launch the InDesign software.
You can create a PDF form in InDesign by following the steps below:
Description - This is entered value that is displayed as the tool tip and is usually used for designing accessible forms.
Button Value - This value corresponds to the export value that is in Acrobat and is essentially used to recognize a radio button from a specific group in an accessible form. You can then view your InDesign forms and work on them.
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