Foxit Phantom PDF - Forms
This one-day course will provide attendees with the skill set to be able to create simple to complex forms using Foxit Editor. Attendees will learn the ‘how’ and maybe the more important the ‘why’ to create forms. Students will be provided will a series of documents that they will review before sending to Foxit to be made into workable, sensible, concise and accurate PDF forms
Description
There are a variety of form fields that FOXIT can offer to authors to add to their forms. Attendees will discuss the differences between the form fields and which is the best given the data that they wish to collect. Attendees will add labels to all form fields so that the user of the form will know exactly what is expected as the field input. These ‘captions’ or ‘labels’ will allow form users to know date and time format, limitations for input, etc. Many times a Word document, or other type of document, exists that lays out the ‘shell’ of the form, without the form fields. Participants will work several existing files and using Foxit send them to Foxit in preparation for the form completion. Alternate text is a requirement when creating accessible PDF documents and forms. It is also used for form users that choose to ‘listen’ to the for while they are completing it. There are times when the PDF form will have numeric/currency fields that require calculations. During this part of the session students will work with calculations and then ultimately how to display, within the form field, the results of those calculations. At this point in the form development, attendees will review their form and identify where calculations should be done. All PDF documents produced in a government or corporate environment should be reviewed and metadata for those documents included. As a final step to form creation, participants will review the default metadata of the form and then add additional, organization specific, metadata.