I am trying to make a form I used FormsCentral For Acrobat, and it looks fine and when I open my pdf in acrobat it looks great but when I open it in a pdf viewer the fields in the form are invisible and the user cannot see where they are supposed to enter the data. They work fine, i.e. when you click on them they can be typed into, but the user can not see where to type.
I want to know how to either put a box around them or to make some sort of contrast.
Is this a viewer other than Adobe Acrobat? Adobe Acrobat will by default highlight any available fields. If it isn't, look for a setting to change that.
If you create a form with Adobe Acrobat Pro, you can double click the fields to get a properties dialog, and there are settings for border and fill color under the 'Appearance' tab. I don't know how FormsCentral is set up, but it may have a similar command.
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I have made PDF form containing Radiobutton, Text Field, Button,CheckBox and Barcode in Adobe Acrobat Pro. and all is working well.
But according to new requirement I have to "Autogenerate" some of the fields like Radiobutton, Text Field and CheckBox on clicking to the "Add Field" Button, and on clicking the button the control should get auto generate to that PDF form.
Additional the text which is already added to the PDF form get flow down whenever the fields get auto generate on the top of the form.
According to my findings I found that it is possible through Adobe liveCycle but I want it to happen in Adobe Acrobat Pro
Also I have tried adding the blank new PDF page so that according to requirement I autogenerate my field on that blank PDF but not able to add new PDF page through Javascript?
Thanks you in advance.
It is possible; you would need to use form fields for everything which can move when you add new fields (been there, done that).
Then you will need a pagination logic which places or moves the fields to their correct position.
In InDesign I can define buttons and can add different actions to them. One of these actions is "go to page", but apparently that function is only usable when exporting the InDesign document as an SWF. However, we want to export an interactive PDF.
When we open the exported PDF in Adobe Acrobat Professional we can touch up each and every button in the document and set the page to the page we want, but this is of course extremely tedious work, especially when you have several proving runs.
So, my question is: how do I get my buttons in InDesign to jump to a specific page without having to do the touch up late in Adobe Acrobat Professional? Surely it must be possible to navigate between pages?!
I stumbled on this issue a while back too, and i figured out how to link to a place in an interactive PDF document via Buttons:
1) Create Bookmarks on the pages you want to link to. (I usually make a text in the top of the page in 'paper color' and create a bookmark from that)
2) Button action "Go to destination" -> Bookmark
Hope this helps...
Make a box in inDesign.
Select the box.
Open Hyperlink panel
"Create a hyperlink destination" I use the page number
Then go to the page in your inDesign document where you want to make the button.
Make a box and select it
Open hyperlinkpanel "Make hyperlink" and choose the destination you made using the pulldown (not the page number counter, that didn't work for me).
interactiv->Hyperlink and You choose "New Hyperlink destination" from menu in top-right dropdown menu. And choose page.
I tried sometime but now i know the deal (on CS5 on Windows). I only have the German version so maybe i´ll label some things wrong:
When you create your button and determine the "action" you´ll get a list with available options. Here the upper options work in PDF and SWF, but some options are available "only in swf" and "only in pdf.
"Go to a certain page" is not available in PDF :(
So you have to edit the document via Acrobat.
Another thing: When writing an interactive pdf-file use the option "Export..." under "File", here you chose "Adobe PDF (Interactive)" under filetype.
Maybe (as a thought) there is a way to use Javascript in InDesign and/or Acrobat to assign the buttons automatically.
I am embeding a PDF form on my web application. The application allows you to fill in the fields in the form, and when you are done, click on a "Submit" button, which saves whatever you've entered into the form. This functionality is working fine.
Unfortunately, Adobe Reader displays a message on top of their embeded control that says: "Please fill out the following form. You cannot save data typed into this form. Please print your completed form if you would like a copy for your records."
Now, I know what Adobe Reader is trying to tell the user. Basically, Adobe Reader will not allow you to save the contents of what you've entered into your local hard drive as a new PDF.
However, since we've added a Submit button which effectively will save what they typed within our application, and it is working. Therefore, we think this message is misleading, and would like to remove it.
I use iTextSharp in .Net for our form automation server side. I have not found a way to remove this message from the embeded forms.
Any help?
It has been a long time, but adobe has added option to hide this annoying message.
On OSX 11.0.3, Preferences>Forms>Always hide document message bar
I'm pretty sure that there is no way around this if you want to continue to use Acrobat Reader to display the PDF. This message is built into Acrobat Reader, and I am not aware of any way to override it from the outside.
Sorry, this is more in the way of a negative answer than a positive one.
There are some third-party, free, projects that are basically PDF viewers for .NET. This would allow you to get rid of the message by avoiding Acrobat Reader entirely, although this is a large amount of work just to get rid of a message.
This one is pretty comprehensive.
Another option that I'm sure you already thought of is to just build the form on the web page, instead of using the PDF. Again, a lot of extra work just to remove a message.
Adobe Acrobat (Standard and Pro) can change PDF forms to enable Adobe Acrobat Reader users to 'fill+save' form data (instead of the standard 'fill+print').
It is a special option available when saving the PDF saying "Save PDF with extended Reader functions" (or similar... I'm translating this back from German into English).
This cannot be achieved with any non-Adobe PDF creating software (unless this has licensed that function from Adobe). The technical reason for this is that Adobe uses a digital signature to protect this function, and that you'll have to agree to not reverse engineer the key when you accept the Adobe EULA. Acrobat Reader has that key compiled into its binary, and if it verified the key, it will change the message displayed to the user indicating that the form data of this document can be saved (it will also change its behaviour and indeed save the data).
Maybe this info helps you?
Switch to View > Full Screen Mode (short cut is on a mac is ⌘L).
Although this mode hides all menus and scroll bars too, I prefer it. IMHO the reader uses far too much screen real estate on junk)
We have a downloadable PDF file which looks great at 72% magnification in Adobe Reader and not so good at 101%. When downloaded and opened in the reader, its default magnification is 101%.
Is there a way to define the default magnification in the PDF file itself so that we ensure the best user experience?
Thank you!
If you can control the URL used to download, you can put parameters in the URL to control how the built-in reader will display the file.
For example, http://example.org/doc.pdf#zoom=50 will set the magnification to 50%.
See: https://www.evermap.com/AutoBookmark/Manual/OpenParameters.htm
The above applies to the built-in reader supplied by Adobe. Other readers may not honor the parameters. In particular, see the answer to this question regarding Chrome.
An example of how to define magnification when opening a file (regardless of the default one):
AcroRd32 /A "zoom=50=OpenActions" sh.pdf
First, this is a programming website, so you should identify a programming context. This question will probably be closed because it belongs on the soon to be launched serverfault.com
To set the default magnification, you need Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional not Reader to have the ability to edit pdfs. Then when you open the document, click File | Properties. Click the Initial View tab and enter 72% in the magnification text box and click ok. Save your pdf and reopen it. It should default to 72% magnification when it is opened.
Note: I am unsure if other open source pdf editors provide this type of functionality.
Update: Standard doesn't work for saving magnifications.
For Adobe Standard, go to "Edit" then "Preferences."
When you click on the "Page Display" tab on the left, you'll see a panel with a field called "Zoom," where you can select a percentage from a drop-down menu.
If the above suggestions are not working it may be because the bookmarks can contain zoom instructions in their properties. To look at the bookmark properties select a bookmark in the bookmark panel and right click it to open properties. Choose actions. There should be a description of actions that will be applied when clicking on the bookmark.
The best solution I have found is that you can add a subsequent property for zoom instructions that will execute following the initial one, and set the page zoom to your specifications. To do this, select all of the bookmarks, right click to open properties, then actions, then choose the add function. After choosing add, find the zoom instruction that is the best fit for what you are looking for.
If you want to edit the initial zoom instruction through the edit function in bookmark properties on all bookmarks, you cannot select all, because, although the zoom will be set correctly, every bookmark will be set to one bookmark page. If you wish to edit the properties this way you must edit each, one by one.
I'm trying to build a web app to programmatically fill out a PDF form. I am going to configure my form first in Adobe Acrobat, then write a Java app with iText to fill out all the form fields via user input from the web. The base form I need to fill out comes from the US government. They created form fields with extremely large kerning (character spacing) values I need to change. However, there appears to be no way to modify this value in the Acrobat UI.
Does anyone know how to manipulate character spacing on form fields in Acrobat 8.0 for Windows? I could try to use iText to programmatically manipulate the kerning of the original document, but this would be much more tedious.
I believe I figured this out: kerning is called "combing" in acrobat, and each of the form fields have been "combed". The strange thing is this option isn't checked when I view the properties of the form field, but "combing" is the behaviour I was attempting to replicate.