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When it comes to forms and Acrobat, Max is at the head of the class. Maybe he should write the book. How many languages do you speak, Max? Rich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Wyss Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jane_Edwards Subject: Re: [PDF-Basics] Forms in Acrobat 6 PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ I can really understand your frustration. There have been many changes from Acrobat 5 to 6 whose usefullness I am not going to discuss here (they would go beyond the reasonable limits of the mailing list format...). The Form tool as we know has been abandoned. There is now a Field tool which is subdivided into tools for the individual field types. And there is the Object Selection tool which allows you to see and select fields and links alike. The keyboard shortcuts are still all there, but someone (please insert your word of choice here) decided to set the factory default setting to "deactivated". Go to the Preferences --> General tab and check the "Use single-key accellerators to access tools" option. Et voil�, the keyboard shortcuts are back. The Classroom in a Book is useless for creating fields. If you have a closer look at the Acrobat 6 version, it says that it is for "Acrobat 6 Standard". There is no Classroom in a Book for Acrobat 6, and -- from what I heard -- there will not be one. I don't know if that is a decision by Peachpit, or if that decision has been influenced by Adobe. So, overall, it is not thaaaaat bad <g>. Hope, this can help. Max Wyss PRODOK Engineering Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland Fax: +41 1 700 20 37 or +1 815 425 6566 e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.prodok.com [ Building Bridges for Information ] ______________________ Shameless Plug: My next conference appearances and workshops: � Conference presentations at the 2004 Symposium of the BFMA, May 23 to 27 in Reno, Nevada (http://www.bfma.org) and pre-/post-conference workshop, May 22/23 and 27, organized by essociates Group (http://www.essociatesgroup.com/AdvancedAcrobatForms.htm) � And, as always, available for on-site workshops/tutorials/consulting. _________________________ > Where is the Form tool in Acrobat 6? > > I am trying to modify a form that I have used through several versions > of Acrobat. > > "F" no longer takes me to the Form tool, and "H" no longer takes me to > the Hand tool. > Grrr. > > When I've had to make previous edits to this form using Acrobat 6, > I've gone to the Fields tab and selected my field there, and then > modified the field. Tonight I need to create a new field, so I finally > pulled out the CIB and read Lesson 12. When I got to the end of the > chapter, I discovered that it doesn't show how to *create* forms--only > how to fill them out. Grrr again. > > So I went into Acrobat and choose Help > Building and Editing Forms > and it tells me to... > > ...use the form field tool! > > So where is this tool? > > And why the heck did Adobe put in a lesson in CIB on filling out > forms, but not one on creating forms? > > And why did they take away two good > shortcuts? > > Grrr again! > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
