Word 2008 Form to Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 Form

[Michael_Zanfardino@adobeforums.com]

Hi all,

Any tutorials on creating forms from Word 2008 to Acrobat Professional 8. I have several forms in Word 2008 and would like to create PDF forms out of them. I use the create form, in version 8 of acrobat, option to auto read the document and create a form. How do I do this and not have to use underlines..etc. Any info would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

mz

[Michael Kazlow]

Michael

There is no method on the Mac to move Word forms to Acrobat forms. You
can take any forms you have, run them through the autorecognition to see
what it can find. Delete the fields you do not want and manually add the
form fields you do want.

Personally, I find that Acrobat does a better job of recognizing boxes
as places to automatically place fields. But it also creates too many
fields. I also find that the automatic generation of fields usually will
not create the field types I want. If you only have several forms, then
manually creating form fields is not to burdensome. It is only when I
have multitudes do I really wish the automation of fields worked better
than it does :-)

I think you are better off creating forms that make the information easy
to find and easy to read than worrying about how well the get
autorecognized. The forms will be used many times, they only get created
once!


Mike

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

The Form Field Recognition as well as the form editing is much improved in Acrobat 9 Pro!

[Jon Bessant]

There is an Acrobat 9 tutorial on forms within lynda.com - Brian Wood is
the host and he's very, very good ;-)

If you have Acrobat 8 then it's virtually the same ...

Jon