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Hi Tim, Right click in the Toolbar Well and you will see "Properties Bar". When this is active, you will get all the formatting features. When you enter a field that has "Rich Text Formatting" allowed, this will allow the user of the form to add formatting. lori -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Day, Tim G. Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:44 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [PDF-Forms] 6.0 vs 5.0 PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Ironically, I was just looking through the Acrobat 6 documentation on forms design, because one of my users wants to be able to bold, italicize, underline, etc. text entered into form fields. This feature (allowing Rich Text formatting) is supposedly now available in Acrobat 6. Other new features include accommodation of "comb" fields (where there is one box per character) and the ability to specify a mask to automatically format entries (although these features can be accomplished in Acrobat 5 with JavaScript.) Also, calculation expressions can now be in spreadsheet-like format, and the tab sequence can be set more automatically, but unfortunately, it apparently cannot be set arbitrarily as in Acrobat 5. All form fields of a particular type (such as "Text") can be easily selected, but apparently I can no longer select multiple fields of different types (except perhaps by selecting *all* fields). There are probably other new form features in Acrobat 6 that I overlooked as I skimmed the documentation, and I didn't read the section on transferring form data to a database. Recently, I wrote on this forum: We now have Acrobat 6 at my office, but I insisted on keeping Acrobat 5 on my computer so that I could get some work done. So I agree completely with Max Wyss' advice: Keep your copy of Acrobat 5.05 around; you will appreciate it... ------------------------------------------------- but we use a separate field behind each form field to provide each field a background color that doesn't print, and Acrobat 6 does not provide for easy manipulation of fields on-top-of fields. But if you already have Acrobat 5, I don't think there's any big reason to upgrade to Acrobat 6, unless the features mentioned above are needed. P.S. Although I discovered how to designate a field to "Allow Rich Text Formatting", I can't figure out how the user enters text that is bolded, italicized, or underlined. If anyone knows, please tell me. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Riopelle, Jodi (J.L.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:54 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [PDF-Forms] 6.0 vs 5.0 PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Well I am a programmer and know JavaScript, perl, cgi, etc. So that shouldn't be a problem. My main concern is setting in all the fields for the form - now that's something I haven't done before. And I can find NO documentation on 6.0 to find out if that function has been improved at all. But thanks for the tips. -----Original Message----- From: MacNaughton, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [PDF-Forms] 6.0 vs 5.0 PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ It's not a simple answer I'm afraid. It's no problem to convert your Word or excel documents to Adobe 5.0 pdf through printing to distiller or using the addins. It only takes a little bit of skill to create form feilds in the pdf for data entry. The real problem is getting the data to a database. I've been studying this important link for 2 months and still find it very problematic. All I now about 6.0 is they want more money for the same functionality in that you will need to get the pro version to make forms & no mention has been made of an upgrade to the ADBC interface. You will need to learn or hire someone who knows javascript and or perl/cgi/sql - good luck Just the facts - Rob -----Original Message----- From: Riopelle, Jodi (J.L.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:23 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [PDF-Forms] 6.0 vs 5.0 Hi there, I'm new to the list and I have a pretty simple question (I think) I want to create interactive forms from word and excel documents that I currently have. (They will be stored in a database) I own 5.0 and know I can do what I need to do, but I'm curious if I upgrade to 6.0 if there are advantages. If anyone knows of any it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks you Jodi R To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
