Create a PDF Fill-In Form for Your Website
The Portable Document Format (PDF) conversion file type has many opportunities for obtaining and converting data for tracking and storage. Because anyone with a PDF viewing program installed on their computer can view the material, it is a popular format for posting documents, such as forms, on the Internet. A PDF form posted on a website may be downloaded, filled out and returned. The data from the forms can be converted to a text or data file and dropped into a spreadsheet or database. You can create a PDF fill in form for your website, with the right application, by following a few steps.
Instructions
1. Download and install a PDF writer onto your computer. Make certain the program you choose has features that allow you to create form fields. PDF writing programs that have features, such as those necessary to create forms, may be somewhat expensive. PDFill is used for the steps that follow, and you may download the program for free at www.pdfill.com.
2. Launch the PDFill PDF Editor portion of the PDFill program. If you want to use an existing document to create the form for your website, click once on the "Open new PDF project" option under the "File" drop down menu and move to step 4. If you want to build a form from the ground up, click once on the "Open new blank PDF project" option under the "File" drop down menu and move to step 3.
3. Select a page format for the form you want to create for your website on the "New Blank Page Properties" window. These options are basically the same as a word processing document, as you may choose landscape or portrait, as well as the page height and width. If necessary, you may change the background color of the page on which the form will appear using the "Background Color" feature. After you have finished adjusting the page format, click once on the "OK" button.
4. Use the "Insert SingleLine Text" and "Insert MultipleLine Text" buttons to add text boxes to the form. These should not be confused with the "Text Box" form field, which would be used to collect a free-form text response on the form.
Click once in a location on the document where you want to add text and a box will populate that area. To add text, just begin typing and your text will appear in the box. The text properties for the "SingleLine" and "MultipleLine" boxes may be adjusted by clicking once on the border. The text properties within the selected box may then be adjusted using the options on the font formatting toolbar, similar to a word processing program.
5. Insert form fields, such as check boxes and radio buttons, using the available tools on the "Forms" toolbar.
Click once in a location on the document where you want to add a form field and drag down and to the right while holding down the mouse button to position the form field. After you create a form field, a "Properties" window will automatically generate. Use this window to edit any specific properties and click once on the "OK" button.
Use the "Select to edit" option under the "Edit" menu to edit a form field's size and appearance. Highlight a field that you want to change and click once on the "Edit Current Object's Properties" button on the "Forms" toolbar. You may move any form fields and text boxes by clicking once on the border and dragging to an alternate area of the page while holding down the mouse button.
6. Click once on "Save Project As" in the "File" menu to save the form for your website. If you find that the form needs to be adjusted in the future, click once on the "File" menu and select "Open Project to resume editing." The file is now ready to be used in connection with your website.
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