Creating Text box in Acrobat

[steelcoyot]

Ok let me start to say I'm a newbie with using Acrobat so please bear with me as I try to discribe what I'm looking to do. I have a custom PDF that I want to be able to have text boxes to fill in customer information. I also want to create check boxes to select what item they wanted. I want to be able to have this form work with reader and have it so that the customer can save it and email it back to me. How would I go about setting up these custom fields in Acrobat Standard.

Thanks

 

[diogenes10]

Your use of the word standard implies you are using 6 or 7.
In the standard version of releases 6 and 7 you may not have the ability to do forms design work - I don't know because I have just upgraded to 7 and haven't had a chance to try to do that yet.

In Acrobat 5, there were a series of tools arrayed vertically on the left side of the screen. One of those was text box creator tool. You would select that and then draw the box and assign its properties on the form. I never created a form from scratch but it worked very well to modify forms I would get off the internet. I think the check box was one of the properties you could then assign to the text box you were creating.

But I think you are first going to have to check and see if you need to upgrade your software to do forms work.