InDesign CS6 and PDF Forms

InDesign CS6 and PDF Forms:

Buttons and Forms Panel (Window > Interactive > Buttons and Forms)

Sample Buttons and forms

The PDF Forms Song

At last year’s Pepcon

Tony Harmer did say:

Adobe, add PDF forms

to my InDesign tray.
Lo and behold!

Rejoice now hey!

Upgrade to CS6

PDF Forms at play.
Lay out your form,

add form fields and mix

from the Button and Forms library

in InDesign Cee Ess Six.
Customize the form,

as much you will,

font sizes for input fields

or a custom stroke or fill.
If default appearances please you not,

and you think they’re rather plain,

using different appearances ought

to jazz up your game.
Predefined actions for Buttons,

How well does this bode?

Clear Form, Submit, Reset:

All without writing code.
User friendly forms,

Are pretty hard to make,

Add Tool tips and Tab orders

Or the workflow just might break
Export to PDF,

And create a tagged one,

Test in Acrobat, distribute to users,

And you’re all done!
Upgrade to Cee Ess Six,

Forms and more await,

Or get a Creative Cloud subscription,

And be always up-to-date.

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