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Understanding form objects - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Interactive Documents
Understanding form objects
- [Instructor] With form objects you can create great looking PDF forms in InDesign that users can complete and submit in a PDF. So let's check out PDF form objects. Here in our exercise file we have a magazine subscription form that we saw in an earlier movie and it includes radio buttons for selecting a one or two year subscription, text fields for entering information, like a Name, an Address, and so on, it has list boxes where you can choose a State, and a Credit Card, it has a checkbox to sign up for e-mails, and a button to Submit the form. So let's see how some of these things were created. I'll switch over to InDesign and to add form elements I need to use the Buttons and Forms panel. I'll start by selecting the frame that I wanna use for the First Name field with the Selection Tool. Right now this is just a plain InDesign text frame, but with it selected I'll go to the panel and I'll choose Type, Text Field. I'll give it a Name, First Name. I don't need to attach any Actions,…
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