Chapter 14. Creating Forms with Acrobat Pro

Acrobat Pro has long provided tools that let you define interactive form fields that can collect data from a reader and send that data back to you.

We could write an entire book (or two) about creating Acrobat forms. This chapter introduces you to the basics of creating a functioning form with Acrobat. Happily, you can get very far with just the basics.

And with Acrobat 9, it is now absolutely, mindlessly simple to distribute your forms to a group of people and then retrieve their responses. The secret? That newly introduced wonder of wonders: Acrobat.com. Acrobat 9 automatically handles all the details of posting your form online, sending out notices to your list of responders, and then collecting the ...

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