Looking at a finished PDF

Let's take a quick look at a finished form and see how it's laid out, this might…give you some ideas about building your own forms.…At the top of the form, there is some information about why they'd want to fill…out the form, and you notice these numbers at the left, sort of leads the user…to do the right thing, fill out their Contact information, what they like to…donate so forth and so on.…It's very clear there is a lot of open space, there is plenty of space for them…to put their names, etcetera.…At the bottom there is a separate area for Method of Payment, little area for…Signature, so forth and so on.…This replicates a real world printed, paper form, and so it's familiar to users…who have used it before, but for somebody who is just coming at it fresh, it's…really obvious what the user ought to do.…

And it's sort of ironic that when you are designing interactive documents of any…kind, whether it's PDF form or even HTML web pages, it's up to you to make it…ease for the guy on the other side of the screen.…