From the course: Creating an Interactive PDF Brochure
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Create a PDF form - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Creating an Interactive PDF Brochure
Create a PDF form
- [Instructor] With a printed brochure, potential customers can contact a business only by taking extra steps to phone, write, or email, but with a PDF, you can add a form that people can use to send you their information directly from the brochure. So, let's see how to use the form tools in InDesign. Here on page seven of the exercise file, I've added some elements that will be the basis for our form, so we have a title telling folks what this form is for. To sign up for an email newsletter. And we have three frames which we'll make into form fields, where they can enter their information. For a first name, last name, and email, plus another frame that we can convert into a button to submit the form. So first, let's Shift + Click on the three frames that'll be the text fields so they're all selected. One, two, three, and in the Buttons and Forms panel, choose Type, Text Field. Now I want to be sure that the user can't submit the form without filling in all three of these fields, so…
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What we're going to build4m 17s
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Add navigation buttons7m 8s
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Add bookmarks5m 33s
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Add hyperlinks9m 49s
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Use buttons to change content5m 56s
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Place video6m 27s
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Create a PDF form4m 17s
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Collect form data3m 24s
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Export and test5m 23s
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Fix PDF problems with Adobe Acrobat4m 40s
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