I'm sorry If youve read this post before but i wasn't sure if this was one of those forums where u get banned for bringing up all posts. Anyway I'm very new to pagemaker but i have acrobat proffesional 6 along with distiller, and adobe pagemaker 7.0. I need to make a pdf that people can fill in on their computers. Could some one please help?
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editable forms again, im very new to PM.
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Willy,
I'd recommend that you launch Acrobat and search for the tutorial on Creating Editable Forms OR find the book and/or CD that should have come with Acrobat and look up the procedure. The Tutorial should be easy and fairly complete.
Basically, you have a three-step process.
Step 1: In PageMaker, create your form layout with lines and/or boxes where you wish the data to be entered.
Step 2: Distill your document to create your PDF.
Step 3: In Acrobat, you will create the links where the data is entered.
Now, all this is based upon my experience with Acrobat 5.5. I'm not yet familiar enough Acrobat 6 to know if it permits direct creation of forms in Acrobat rather than making the layout in PM and distilling it into a PDF. I'm sure Eggles or BigJohn (experts in this user forum) can provide more insight into the workings of A6.
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I'd recommend that you launch Acrobat and search for the tutorial on Creating Editable Forms OR find the book and/or CD that should have come with Acrobat and look up the procedure. The Tutorial should be easy and fairly complete.
Basically, you have a three-step process.
Step 1: In PageMaker, create your form layout with lines and/or boxes where you wish the data to be entered.
Step 2: Distill your document to create your PDF.
Step 3: In Acrobat, you will create the links where the data is entered.
Now, all this is based upon my experience with Acrobat 5.5. I'm not yet familiar enough Acrobat 6 to know if it permits direct creation of forms in Acrobat rather than making the layout in PM and distilling it into a PDF. I'm sure Eggles or BigJohn (experts in this user forum) can provide more insight into the workings of A6.
Knock and the door shall be opened unto you. Seek and ye shall find!
I love Mondays cause they're the Second day of the week!
BionicJohn
Technical User
Hi, horqua,
> I'm not yet familiar enough Acrobat 6
Likewise!
> experts in this user forum
Ha! We've just make more mistakes than everyone else!
Iechyd da! John
23:41 23/09/2003 BST
> I'm not yet familiar enough Acrobat 6
Likewise!
> experts in this user forum
Ha! We've just make more mistakes than everyone else!
Iechyd da! John
23:41 23/09/2003 BST
BJD,
I work for a multi-national and the corporation is in a world of hurt right now, cutting expenses and laying off workers and/or shifting jobs to India. When I first started at my desk, my system had the latest and greatest of the Adobe suite. Now, we're a version behind and I don't look for an upgrade in the forseeable future, since the version I have is adequate for my needs. Adobe is way too expensive to own personally, so I'll just have to wait to catch up. Is your situation similar?
Blessings and thanks for all your great advice!
Knock and the door shall be opened unto you. Seek and ye shall find!
I love Mondays cause they're the Second day of the week!
I work for a multi-national and the corporation is in a world of hurt right now, cutting expenses and laying off workers and/or shifting jobs to India. When I first started at my desk, my system had the latest and greatest of the Adobe suite. Now, we're a version behind and I don't look for an upgrade in the forseeable future, since the version I have is adequate for my needs. Adobe is way too expensive to own personally, so I'll just have to wait to catch up. Is your situation similar?
Blessings and thanks for all your great advice!
Knock and the door shall be opened unto you. Seek and ye shall find!
I love Mondays cause they're the Second day of the week!
BionicJohn
Technical User
Hi, horqua,
I started with PM3/Win2 in about 1988 when I was a Staff Development Officer in (UK) Local Government. Our training publications made a quantum leap in quality, and soon I was producing all kinds of documents. 15 years later, I've managed to arrange upgrades to hardware and software to keep pace with PM and a few other Adobe Products like Acrobat. But 15 years later, I'm now head of our Staff Dev section, so don't use PM as often or as intensively as I used to.
I have personal/educational copies of all the software because I qualify as an educationalist/teacher and we are not using Adobe Products commercially. The price of educational versions is about 35% of the full retail price, plus working for educational are of local government, we can recover the 17½% VAT.
And yes, I've been part of "downsizing" but survived so far!
Iechyd da! John
21:19 24/09/2003 BST
I started with PM3/Win2 in about 1988 when I was a Staff Development Officer in (UK) Local Government. Our training publications made a quantum leap in quality, and soon I was producing all kinds of documents. 15 years later, I've managed to arrange upgrades to hardware and software to keep pace with PM and a few other Adobe Products like Acrobat. But 15 years later, I'm now head of our Staff Dev section, so don't use PM as often or as intensively as I used to.
I have personal/educational copies of all the software because I qualify as an educationalist/teacher and we are not using Adobe Products commercially. The price of educational versions is about 35% of the full retail price, plus working for educational are of local government, we can recover the 17½% VAT.
And yes, I've been part of "downsizing" but survived so far!
Iechyd da! John
21:19 24/09/2003 BST
Horqua - I'm with you on this one. I have never had the opportunity to use InDesign as I have not been in a workplace that will/can upgrade, and I certainly can't justify it for my home computer. On which until very recently, I was still using Photoshop 5.5 and Illustrator 8.0 - both at least two version behind the current one. As for upgrading to V6 of Acrobat - I just can't see that happening for me any time soon - either in a work or home situation.
BionicJohn
Technical User
Hi, Lyn,
Is there any way you can qualify as a student or teacher and qualify for the discounts?
AFAIK, this splash is only difference.
This is a link to the UK Education page where I order my stuff from. I expect there's an Adobe Pacific one too.
Iechyd da! John
18:08 25/09/2003 BST
Is there any way you can qualify as a student or teacher and qualify for the discounts?
AFAIK, this splash is only difference.
This is a link to the UK Education page where I order my stuff from. I expect there's an Adobe Pacific one too.
Iechyd da! John
18:08 25/09/2003 BST
Re: Is there any way you can qualify as a student or teacher and qualify for the discounts?
No such luck John. Although briefly a student earlier this year when I took some classes in Quark (urk!) we didn't receive any sort of student card as I think the course was probably too 'short' to allow for this. Never mind, I'll just keep pluggin along with my old copies of software.
No such luck John. Although briefly a student earlier this year when I took some classes in Quark (urk!) we didn't receive any sort of student card as I think the course was probably too 'short' to allow for this. Never mind, I'll just keep pluggin along with my old copies of software.
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