Designing Acrobat-Friendly Forms in InDesign

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Adobe Acrobat makes electronic completion and distribution of forms fast and easy, and Adobe InDesign can make the creation of those forms even faster. The techniques that speed up formatting in InDesign and the principles that make for clean, organized form design also lend themselves to fast and easy form creation in Acrobat. In this session, Diane Burns will show you time-saving techniques that make your forms both easy to design and Acrobat-friendly.
Sign up today and learn how you can:
• Create Nested Styles and GREP Styles using InDesign to create flexible form fields
• Use InDesign Anchored Objects for Acrobat-friendly checkboxes and radio buttons
• Leverage advanced InDesign Find/Change techniques to speed up repetitive form-building tasks
• Take advantage of InDesign tables to create comb fields
• Automatically convert a PDF exported from InDesign to a fillable form using Acrobat
• Troubleshoot, fix and avoid form field recognition problems
• Easily distribute forms electronically from Acrobat Pro
• Enable additional features in forms for Adobe Reader users
• Collect and manage data from submitted forms using Acrobat.com
Diane Burns is an Adobe Authorized Instructor for InDesign, based in San Francisco. She is the author of several books on electronic publishing and is a regular contributor to InDesign Magazine. Ms. Burns is also president of TransPacific Digital, a design firm specializing in multi-lingual projects for print and web.
Register for free here.