How to Make a Submittable PDF With Adobe Acrobat Pro
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Here's a tutorial about how to make a submittable form with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2015. I go over how to take a PDF made with Word or InDesign or Excel, etc., create form fields, format the fields, add calculations, and then create a submit button and reset button. Hopefully by the end of this discourse you'll be able to open your own PDF and convert it to a form that can be submitted by anyone with a modern version of Acrobat Reader. Hope this helps all who are struggling with form creation in Acrobat.
Greetings Tony. I really appreciate you took time to put together this tutorial. What you shared was very helpful. Your teaching style is very comprehensive. Thanks again. Be blessed, stay well.
TNice tutorials was easy to follow.
Thanks for this video, had no idea Acrobat Pro was this powerful. I got many ideas running in my minds now to create.
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Great Video. Thanks for putting this out there. Your video in addition to the adobe knowledge base brings it closer to home.
Fantastic work Tony, I found this to be great, clear starter guide to submittable PDF forms. Thank you!
Enjoyed your training. Easy to follow made it easy.
Thank you so much for posting this video. It has helped me tremendously.
Great tutorial, detailed enough yet still precise. Thank you!
Thank you so much! So very helpful and much appreciated, Tony.
your video was really helpful to a new user. Thank you.
Thank you for this product.
Ok, so, now that I watched the whole video, it was fantastic! Thank you so much! Really appreciate it. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Thanks for sharing.........great Insight .........I have been toying with the idea of making some Fillable PDF Forms in InDesign & Acrobat DC. This has given me the drive to do it rather than just think about it.......perhaps with some of the "Sample Buttons" from InDesign
Thank you
Thank you for posting this.
Very helpful!!! Thank you !
THANKS! Everything worked fine!
and thank you for your effort. If you can make a video about Lo-Fi soft, that would be aweso!
Hello
Thanks for the tutorial.
Submittable in 19:30
Thank you! Is there a way to allow the filler add a personal picture or any other file as an attachment to the form? For instance, when I send a fillable form to someone that needs to add his picture on a form requesting a club membership.
Thank you for this well guided tutorial. I was able to do it all but when I send the forms to people it will not submit .
Great tutorial, sir!
Thank you!!! That was really helpful.
Thanks for the video. I like many in Google search say this does no work. The Submit button doing a MAILTO: inside Adobe Review works. But when sending to random people with random PC setup it does not work. Adobe says the recipient needs to have specific JavaScript install in their PDF reader. Like Chrome, or Edge or any other browser. If they have Adobe Reader, it works. Adobe says if you can find the JavaScript code, it can be added to the form and make it work. Have you tried this on outside of business PC and seen it work? Have ideas on why so many really have a problem. The button appears to be a Do Nothing. No error and no popup for mail delivery, etc.
The radio buttons I have put on work fine when looking at them on the monitor unfortunately when the form is printed out the buttons show as being filled in. This is the case even if the form is cleared and nothing is selected.
Any suggestions?
very nice
Thank you for your tutorial..
I been trying for days to export a fillable in design sheet I created (looks like yours) and doesn't recognized anything when I export it. If I do everything from acrobat do you know if I can put a bar code and make it generated a new one every time I change my info? Also can you insert images? It works on preview (mac) but not at all in acrobat. SOS.
awesome vid...very informative.
thanks, it was really useful
great video
The form I'm filling out doesn't have a submit button for some reason and they want me to email it back to them. When i click send and track it says the form will send a blank document because there is a submit button located on the form. This is strange because i don't see any submit button located in the PDF even when i press highlight existing fileds.. no submit button
Can you give advice on how to build this form with price options? For example if each shirt size was a different price?
What if I need to make multi-line calc for example Row 6 equals row 1 an row 2 and also needs row 6 to be minus row 1 and row 3. How would I do those calculations?
Is there any way to make the forms fillable on mobile device? So it has to be opened in an application that can read the fillable fields ?
Tony can you comment on how to remove bounding boxes? They appear around my individual text boxes and it is impossible to edit the individual fields without clearing them out and starting over. I appreciate your help!
I have a form I'm quite proud of. I just have one thing to complete my form. I would love to have my submit form button allow the user to select from a list of emails to send the form to. It's a military form, and often the users would want to send it to just one email or as many as 10. Do you have any suggestions that I can make this happen? Thank you very much indeed.
If i have drop down in every line but do not want it to show unless I need to use the line, is that possible?
How is the information in your PDF form being securely sent from the client to the person receiving the PDF?
i am using this software ; adober reader user are not able to upload the image ; when browse for an image it does come up as jgp., jpeg. etc. , there is a way to to this
great video. how can you create a unique tracking number ? let’s say to be generated once the customer opens then pdf? or once customer completes required data to generate it;?
Very helpfull Thanks
I created a form in Word by using table cells to represent the fields. Each cell has the field name in the upper left corner. I am using Acrobat DC to create the form in PDF but it does not auto detect any fields. Any ideas why? Even when I add a text field to the Word document, Acrobat still doesn't recognize that text field as a field.
How the heck did you get the fields in there? You jumped right to it and did not show how you got those fields in. ???
Very nice tutorial easy to follow thank you!
Is there an option to auto populate the current date when opening the document?
Thank you soooo much!!!
is there a way to make text boxes in acrobat XI Pro have a sunken appearance?
Have you done any work with barcodes in PDF? having issue
Tony, quick question. Is there a way to edit so the Click to Submit and Reset buttons have the text within their boxes, rather than above?
I think so Kristine. I'll have to check and get back with you.
great videas. i am using this software i have issues when users in adobe reader upload an image in the form it come up as error. how csn i allo user to upload their own photos, please thank you Tony
Also your mind catches more stuff when you're interested
How I can create the submit button to prompt me the "Save as" windows and to save as HTML ?
THANK YOU
Hi Tony. I have watched your video to make my invoice for my business. Your video was very helpful - Thank you!!! However, my clients order a number of things so I have many lines.I copied and pasted all of the fields i have on each line. (I'm a photographer, so my lines have a field for image #, size, product, quantity, unit price and total price. However, when i click on one, it changes all of the lines. Is there a way i can disassociate each line or do i have to literally create a new field for every spot? TIA
Nevermind. I figured it out. I have to name them all different. So depending on the line they are on, i added a number to the end. EX: Description 1, Description 2 etc..
Hi Tony,
I have created the text in Word and then created the fields in Acrobat. Now I need to add a logo and change the text for one category...i cant seem to do this in Word or in Acrobat. Any suggestions?
+Ivana Cvek Ivana - I'm assuming you have Acrobat Pro, right? If so then open your pdf, go to tools and choose Edit PDF option. Then you should be able to add an image file for the logo or change text for your categories. Hope this helps. If you want to send me the PDF to review, do that through my tonyleeglenn@gmail.com address. Thanks, TLG
Thank You! :)
Thank You!!
I am using the trial version of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC but there are many functions that do not show up as it does on your demonstration, for example the format and "ok Button". Any ideas? Are these options only available after payment?
IF THERE IS NO BUTTON ICON [OK] IN ACROBAT PRO DC
"Under Prepare Form do you see an option called "Revert to Acrobat form", or something like that? If so, click it."
- GO TO TOOLS - PREPARE FORM - THIS IS LOCATED ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE IN THE "MORE" SECTION (WHICH HAS A HAMMER & WRENCH ICON).
Here is a link to the instructions forums.adobe.com/thread/2033157
Hi Tony, first of all great tutorial. I knew that this was possible but never found a good explanation... until now so thanks for that.
But i have question. I have made a fillable invoice template for a friend of mine. So now every time he opens the form in Acrobat reader, he only has to fill in the fields. And it works great but the form stays fillable so until know he does't send them to customers. Is there a way to save it and send it as a normal non fillable pdf after him filling in the form? I hope you have the solution for that. Thanks already for your time and effort. Richard
+Daargaatie Will try to do a video this weekend that shows how Richard. Stay tuned. I'll send you a link.
+Tony Lee Glenn That would be awesome. Thank, i will be waiting anxiously for it.
hi there - Im using the pro dc version, totally paid for, and mine looks just like yours. However, when you pull up the options for each box (trying to calculate boxes) I don't get all of the same options you do. I do not get the formatting box, or the calculations box. Is there something Im missing? Thanks! I loved your video!
+Morgana Gill same here! The only options I get are General, Appearance, Position and Options. Is it because its on a Mac by any chance? I really could do with the Format and Calculate options!
Im thinking its MAC related - I don't know what else could be the issue. The Format and Calculate options are part of the reason I went with this version.
How to autofill a textbox with amount in words ??
Tony, from what I've seen, a "submit by email" button normally attaches the PDF with a standardized name to the email. Is it possible to create a customized name based on data entered into the form, such as " Form Name"? And do you know how? And will you kindly show us? :)
I could probably do that with the most recent version of Acrobat. This is a video I've been planning to update for a long time. I'll see if I can get to it.
@@tonyleeglenn Thank you for your prompt response! I'll be very grateful if you can show us all how that's done. I am trying to set up a very specific business process that would rely on forms arriving by email to a SharePoint document library, and they all have the same filenames. I know from experience that I cannot rely on the members of my organization to follow a naming convention.
I'll subscribe to ensure I get the notification when the video is ready! :)
I have created these forms, however when I post them to my website, the submit button does not work. Any suggestions?
Many things could cause a problem Gwen. Usually it's because the Acrobat Reader on the end user's side is not compatible (an older version perhaps). If you are testing with your own computer, make sure you download the normal Acrobat Reader version (latest one) from Adobe to test. If you still have problems then there might be another problem. Let me know if still doesn't work. Maybe I could help offline.
Does it support database?
This was a great tutorial thank you! It all looks and works great when I preview it. BUT....when I email it no text boxes are visible and the calculations that work in preview no longer work. Any suggestions?? My tutorial ends in 2 days....
+Rachelle Hopkins if you don't mind send me the PDF you have made and I'll take a look at it. Not sure what might be wrong. My email can be accessed through the details on my channel.
Thanks for this tutorial!! It was a big help. I have adobe acrobat x and I have my form, I am able to successfully fill it out online but when it gets emailed to the person that needs it all they get is a blank form and they don't see the info. I filled out. On my end it's saved with all the appropriate fields filled out. Any idea what's wrong? Regardless, you're video was very helpful to me!!
I sometimes find that if you open a PDF that has been filled in but appears blank, if you click in the individual boxes the text will suddenly appear. Also when printing, the text appears as well.
I don't have DC atm and can't remember how to do it but you could "flatten" the document so that the field data becomes part of the document image.
I'm trying to have parents fill out a form with emergency contact information, including a signature. While I would like to be able to print off their forms, I also want to be able to compile all the data into a spreadsheet to share with our lead personnel. How can I get that data in a workable format? Thanks!
+Jennifer Flora Jennifer - you can also set the form to submit a data file - not just a completed PDF. It's during the phase where you tell it to submit a completed PDF. Instead, tell it to make an FDF file (I believe that's right). It will send a data file that can be loaded into a pdf for printing, and a spreadsheet for sorting and data management. I might have to do a second video to make it totally understandable. TLG
+Tony Lee Glenn Thanks so much. I think I figured it out. I can have the submit the completed PDF, and then I can export the data into a spreadsheet, so I can have both versions. One extra step on my part, but it is much better than having them write out the info and then me typing it into a document later. Thanks for the help!
So glad you found this helpful Jennifer! TLG
You do not explain how to make checkboxes so that you can only make one choice. For example, you can only pick Germany, or USA or UK. You do not want them to pick several countries for one t-shirt. How do you do this?
Make Radio Buttons -one for each option. They are mutually exclusive. They must all have the same Group name i.e.: Country, with individual names like USA or UK. Only one can be checked. Google it!
i want to create a fillable form and i installed adobe acrobat pro dc trial version. can this version do it? tq
yes it works mate
interesting!
How can I submit and read these form fields to a URL like localhost:49168/WebForm1.aspx
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Just a question can you add button and attach a file to the form
+Jewish Federation I've never tried to do that. I'll look into it tonight. Are you just wanting the button to open a file in a new window - like an instruction box?
Tony Just wondering if you could help me. I am using the trial version of Acrobat Pro DC, and I followed your video and am having problems with the submit button. I have saved my document and pt it on the web and fill it out and click the submit "ok" button and it doesn't do anything. I have the mouse up, submit a form, going to mail to: kmeissner@rapidnet.com, and the PDF The complete document selected. I know it's hard to diagnose with such little info, but I wasn't sure if I was maybe because I had the trial version, (everything else is working great though) so I think it is my error somewhere. Thank you for your time.
+Kellie Meissner I've had the same problem when clicking on a mailto: command isn't set up to auto-open an email client. Are you using outlook or gmail or other for your email client. Key here is to make sure when you click on a mailto command that the email program opens automatically. Try clicking on my email address and see what comes up: tonyleeglenn@gmail.com
+Tony Lee Glenn
Hi Tony, Thank you so much for your reply. I asked our web service provider, since this file was the last piece of the puzzle to make the site go live, so they were more than happy to help. They said that what I needed to do was to have instructions by the PDF file to, download, fill it in, and then submit. The submit button worked just fine then, no matter what email client I was using. The key was to download it... which I'm not sure why when you did it, it worked your way. But regardless it worked... thank you so much for your reply/time/video... I watched it so many times, you seem like a good friend to me:)
Great to hear that you got it to work Kellie.
Kellie I'm having this same issue with my Acrobat DC, what do you mean that you downloaded the link then it started working? I can't get my document to email. Nearly had an anxiety attack because I couldn't fix it today any advise?
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When i try to submit I am told "you need to be running inside a web browser in order to submit form." How do i get around that?
Not sure why that's happening Jonathan. Shouldn't matter if inside a browser or not. Do you have an email client on your computer (Outlook or similar) or are you doing all your email via online service, like gmail? Just curious.
Yes I am using Outlook
Figured it out. MAILTO was in upper case. This phrase must be in lower case - mailto