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Creating Interactive PDF Forms in InDesign CS6. InDesign and Acrobat forms workflow | Learn Acrobat 9. Community Translation Your transcript request has been submitted. Adobe TV does its best to accommodate transcript requests. It can take a few weeks for the transcript to become available in the Community Translation Project, so keep checking back. Join the Community Translation Project Thanks for your interest in translating this episode! To get started, please join the Community Translation Project. Please Confirm Your Interest Thanks for your interest in adding translations to this episode!

An error occurred while processing your request. Another translator has already started to translate this episode. Thanks for Participating! This episode has been assigned to you and you can expect an e-mail shortly containing all the information you need to get started. About This Episode Learn how to create interactive forms using InDesign and Acrobat. Creating PDF Forms in InDesign. We asked Gabriel Powell to create a video that addresses the workflow of starting a form in InDesign and completing it in Acrobat. He did an excellent job. Click here to watch Gabriel Powell’s video As the Creating PDF forms topic suggests, the gist of the workflow is that you design a form in InDesign that includes placeholders for fields such as radio buttons, check boxes, and text fields.

Then you export to PDF and use Acrobat to convert the placeholders into form fields. This isn’t a perfect workflow. Ideally, you should be able to add form fields in InDesign so that exporting to PDF results in a finished form. As we were putting together the plan for this video, I came across a detailed document from the Acrobat team that provides valuable technical details on field recognition and best practices for designing a form. UPDATE: See also Michael Murphy’s videocast on designing PDF forms in InDesign: * Kriss has an interesting workaround tip in comments. Creative Suite CS4 video tutorial : InDesign and Acrobat forms workflow.

InDesign * Dynamic PDF documents. Creating a dynamic PDF document is a good way to create an interactive slideshow. You can create interactive documents with buttons, movies and sound clips, hyperlinks, bookmarks, and page transitions. You can also set up documents in InDesign that can be converted to forms in Acrobat. Create interactive documents for PDF You can export Adobe PDF documents that include the following interactive features. Bookmarks Bookmarks you create in the InDesign document appear in the Bookmarks tab on the left side of the Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader window. Movies and sound clips You can add movies and sound clips to a document, or you can link to streaming video files on the Internet.

Hyperlinks In an exported PDF document, clicking a hyperlink jumps to another location in the same document, to a different document, or to a website. Cross-references A cross-reference refers readers from one part of your document to another in the exported PDF file. Page transitions Export to interactive PDF options View.