1. Acrobat User Guide
  2. Introduction to Acrobat
    1. Acrobat DC tutorials
    2. What's new in Acrobat DC
    3. Create PDFs with Acrobat
    4. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
    5. Edit text in PDFs
    6. Convert PDF to Word
    7. Convert PDF to JPG
    8. Convert or export PDFs to other file formats
    9. Get started with Acrobat DC
    10. Navigating PDF pages
    11. Workspace basics | Acrobat DC
    12. Organisation Requirements | Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, Adobe Acrobat Standard DC
    13. Workspace basics | Acrobat DC 2017, Acrobat DC Classic (2015)
  3. Workspace
    1. Workspace basics | Acrobat DC
    2. Workspace nuts | Acrobat DC 2017, Acrobat DC Classic (2015)
    3. Viewing PDFs and viewing preferences
    4. Navigating PDF pages
    5. Adjusting PDF views
    6. Keyboard shortcuts
    7. Connect your online storage accounts to access files in Acrobat
    8. Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs
    9. Flash Thespian needed | Acrobat, Acrobat Reader
    10. Display PDF in browser | Acrobat, Acrobat Reader
    11. Updating Acrobat and using Adobe Digital Editions
    12. Opening PDFs
    13. Asian, Cyrillic, and correct-to-left text in PDFs
    14. Acrobat in Mac OS | Acrobat Pro
    15. Access Box files in Acrobat, Acrobat Reader
    16. Access Dropbox files in Acrobat, Acrobat Reader
    17. Access OneDrive files in Acrobat, Acrobat Reader
    18. Admission SharePoint files in Acrobat, Acrobat Reader
    19. Access Google Bulldoze files in Acrobat
    20. Enable thumbnail preview of PDFs in Windows Explorer
    21. Document Cloud notifications
  4. Creating PDFs
    1. Create PDFs with Acrobat
    2. Create PDFs with PDFMaker (Windows)
    3. Impress to PDF
    4. Browse documents to PDF
    5. Overview of PDF creation
    6. Using the Adobe PDF printer
    7. Converting web pages to PDF
    8. PDF fonts
    9. Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller
    10. Adobe PDF conversion settings
  5. Editing PDFs
    1. Edit PDF using Acrobat DC
    2. Edit text in PDFs
    3. Edit images or objects in a PDF
    4. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
    5. Edit scanned PDFs
    6. Raise document photos captured using a mobile camera
    7. Optimizing PDFs
    8. PDF properties and metadata
    9. Links and attachments in PDFs
    10. PDF layers
    11. Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
    12. Action Wizard (Acrobat Pro)
    13. PDFs converted to web pages
    14. Setting up PDFs for a presentation
    15. PDF manufactures
    16. Geospatial PDFs
    17. Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
    18. Alter the default font for adding text and fallback font for editing PDF
    19. Delete pages from a PDF
  6. Browse and OCR
    1. Browse documents to PDF
    2. Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
    3. Edit scanned PDFs
    4. Troubleshoot scanner issues when scanning using Acrobat
  7. Forms
    1. PDF forms basics
    2. Create a grade from scratch in Acrobat
    3. Create and distribute PDF forms
    4. Fill in PDF forms
    5. PDF grade field properties
    6. Fill up and sign PDF forms
    7. Setting activity buttons in PDF forms
    8. Publishing interactive PDF web forms
    9. PDF course field basics
    10. PDF barcode form fields
    11. Collect and manage PDF class data
    12. About forms tracker
    13. PDF forms help
    14. Transport PDF forms to recipients using e-mail or an internal server
  8. Combining files
    1. Combine or merge files into single PDF
    2. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
    3. Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
    4. Crop PDF pages
    5. Add together watermarks to PDFs
    6. Add backgrounds to PDFs
    7. Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
    8. Publish and share PDF Portfolios
    9. Overview of PDF Portfolios
    10. Create and customize PDF Portfolios
  9. Sharing, reviews, and commenting
    1. Share and rail PDFs online
    2. Mark up text with edits
    3. Preparing for a PDF review
    4. Starting a PDF review
    5. Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
    6. Participating in a PDF review
    7. Use annotation and drawing markup tools to add comments in PDFs
    8. Adding a postage to a PDF
    9. Approval workflows
    10. Managing comments | view, reply, print
    11. Importing and exporting comments
    12. Tracking and managing PDF reviews
    13. Adobe Document Cloud for Outlook
  10. Saving and exporting PDFs
    1. Saving PDFs
    2. Convert PDF to Word
    3. Catechumen PDF to JPG
    4. Convert or export PDFs to other file formats
    5. File format options for PDF export
    6. Reusing PDF content
  11. Security
    1. Enhanced security setting for PDFs
    2. Securing PDFs with passwords
    3. Manage Digital IDs
    4. Securing PDFs with certificates
    5. Opening secured PDFs
    6. Removing sensitive content from PDFs
    7. Setting up security policies for PDFs
    8. Choosing a security method for PDFs
    9. Security warnings when a PDF opens
    10. Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager - Forms Server (Document Security)
    11. Protected View feature for PDFs (Windows only)
    12. Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
    13. JavaScripts in PDFs as a security gamble
    14. Attachments every bit security risks in Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC
    15. Allow or cake links in PDFs for all or selected websites
  12. Electronic signatures
    1. Sign PDF documents
    2. Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere
    3. Ship documents for signature
    4. About certificate signatures in Adobe Acrobat
    5. Document-based signatures
    6. Validating digital signatures
    7. Adobe Approved Trust Listing
    8. Manage trusted identities
  13. Press
    1. Basic PDF printing tasks
    2. Print Booklets and PDF Portfolios
    3. Avant-garde PDF impress settings
    4. Print to PDF
    5. Press color PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    6. Printing PDFs in custom sizes
  14. Accessibility, tags, and reflow
    1. Create and verify PDF accessibility (Acrobat Pro)
    2. Accessibility features in PDFs
    3. Reading Order tool for PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    4. Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
    5. Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels (Acrobat Pro)
    6. Creating attainable PDFs
  15. Searching and indexing
    1. Creating PDF indexes
    2. Searching PDFs
  16. Multimedia and 3D models
    1. Add together audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
    2. Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    3. Displaying 3D models in PDFs
    4. Interacting with 3D models
    5. Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
    6. Setting 3D views in PDFs
    7. Enable 3D content in PDF
    8. Adding multimedia to PDFs
    9. Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
    10. Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
    11. Add together comments to videos (Acrobat Pro)
  17. Print product tools (Acrobat Pro)
    1. Impress production tools overview (Acrobat Pro)
    2. Printer marks and hairlines (Acrobat Pro)
    3. Previewing output (Acrobat Pro)
    4. Transparency flattening (Acrobat Pro)
    5. Color conversion and ink management (Acrobat Pro)
    6. Trapping color (Acrobat Pro)
  18. Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
    1. PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/Eastward-compliant files (Acrobat Pro)
    2. Preflight profiles (Acrobat Pro)
    3. Advanced preflight inspections (Acrobat Pro)
    4. Preflight reports (Acrobat Pro)
    5. Viewing preflight results, objects, and resources (Acrobat Pro)
    6. Output intents in PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    7. Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool (Acrobat Pro)
    8. Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions (Acrobat Pro)
    9. Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool (Acrobat Pro)
    10. Additional checks in the Preflight tool (Acrobat Pro)
    11. Preflight libraries (Acrobat Pro)
    12. Preflight variables (Acrobat Pro)
  19. Color direction
    1. Keeping colors consistent
    2. Color settings
    3. Color-managing documents
    4. Working with colour profiles
    5. Understanding color management

This certificate explains how to fill PDF forms using Acrobat or Reader desktop application.

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Quickly fill and sign any PDF form online

Is the form fillable?

Non all forms are fillable. Sometimes form creators don't convert their PDFs to interactive fillable forms. Or, they intentionally blueprint a grade that y'all tin fill in only by mitt or with the Fill & Sign tool. These non-interactive forms are called apartment forms.

Interactive forms in Acrobat Reader
Interactive fillable course in Acrobat Reader: Highlight where you lot should blazon
Flat form in Acrobat Reader
Not-interactive flat course in Acrobat Reader: Use the Fill & Sign tools to add text and other symbols anywhere on the class

Fill up in interactive forms

An interactive grade contains fields that you can select or fill in.

Interactive form in Acrobat
Interactive fillable grade

A. Regal message bar indicates presence of fillable fields.B. When clicked, shows where fillable fields exist.

  1. If necessary, right-click the document, and select either the Mitt Tool or the Select Tool from the pop-up menu.

    The pointer changes to a different icon as yous movement it over a field. For case, the Hand tool changes to an I-beam when you lot can type text into the form field. Some text fields are dynamic, meaning that they automatically resize to accommodate the amount of information you enter and can span across pages.

  2. (Optional) To brand grade fields easier to place, click the Highlight Existing Fields button on the document message bar. Class fields appear with a colored background (light blue by default), and all required form fields are outlined in another color (ruby past default).

  3. Click to select options, such as radio buttons. Click inside a text field to type.

    Press Tab to move forrad or Shift+Tab to move backward.

  4. When finished, click the submit button to either send the data to a server or create an e-mail to send the data. The submit button can appear in the majestic bulletin bar at the top of the form or in the form content.

For troubleshooting tips on completing forms, come across Troubleshooting forms.

A flat form does not have interactive fields. Withal, you can apply the Fill up & Sign tools to add text and other symbols anywhere on the form. For instructions, see Fill out your PDF class.

Fill up in flat forms in a browser

A common mode to view a PDF form is in a web browser, for example, when you click a link on a website. If the grade does not contain interactive fields, you can utilise the Fill up & Sign tools to fill out the grade. Save the form on your estimator, and so open it directly in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. For instructions, see Fill out your PDF form.

Save form on your computer
Save form, open in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader, and then choose Tools > Fill & Sign.

Options for working in forms

Central

Effect

Tab or Shift+Tab

Accepts typing and moves to next field

Upwardly/Left Arrow

Selects previous radio button in a grouping

Down/Correct Arrow

Selects side by side radio button

Esc

Reject and deselect course field.

Esc (press twice)

Exits Full Screen mode

Enter or Render (single-line text field)

Accepts typing and deselects field

Enter or Render (multiline text field)

Creates paragraph return in same form field

Enter or Return (check box)

Turns bank check box on or off

Enter (keypad)

Accepts typing and deselects electric current form field
(Windows) Ctrl+Tab Inserts tab into text field
(Mac) Alt+Tab Inserts tab into text field

Car-Consummate forms (interactive forms only)

The Motorcar-Complete feature stores any entries that you type in an interactive form field. Motorcar-Complete and so suggests or even automatically enters responses that lucifer your typing in other form fields. The suggestions appear in a popular-upwardly card, from which you tin select a match. The Motorcar-Consummate feature is off by default, so you must enable it in the forms preferences if y'all want to use it.

To remove an entry from the Auto-Complete memory, such as a misspelled entry that you found and corrected afterward, edit the listing in the preferences.

The forms preferences employ to the way the application handles open up forms as you work. The preferences aren't saved with the PDF forms themselves.

Enable the Automobile-Consummate option

  1. Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Acrobat /Acrobat Reader > Preferences (Mac OS).

  2. Select Forms on the left.

  3. Nether Motorcar-Consummate, cull Bones or Advanced from the card.

  4. Select Remember Numerical Data if yous desire the Auto-Complete memory to shop numbers that you type into forms.

When you select an option in the Auto-Consummate carte, a description of how information technology affects the Auto-Complete behavior appears in the text area beneath.

Delete an entry from the Auto-Complete retentivity

  1. Open the Preferences dialog box.

  2. Select Forms on the left.

  3. Click Edit Entry List under Machine-Complete.

  4. In the Auto-Complete Entry List dialog box, do 1 of the following, so click Yes in the confirmation dialog box:

    • To remove all of the entries, click Remove All .
    • To remove some of the entries, select the entries and click Remove . (Shift-click to select multiple next entries; Ctrl-click to select multiple nonadjacent entries.)

Change flat forms to fillable (Acrobat Pro)

You can change a flat form to fillable by either using the Prepare Form tool or by simply enabling the Fill & Sign tools. Acrobat and Acrobat Reader users can employ the Fill & Sign tool to fill in flat forms.

Interactive form

To create an interactive form, use the Prepare Forms tool. Come across Create a form from an existing document.

Flat form

To enable the Fill & Sign tools, choose File > Salvage As Other   > Reader Extended PDF > Enable More Tools (includes Form Fill-in & Relieve) .

The tools are enabled for the current form only. When you create a different form, redo this chore to enable Acrobat Reader users to utilise the tools.

Salve forms

  • To save the completed form, choose File > Save Equally and rename the file.

  • To remove extended Reader features, cull File > Save A Copy.

  • To allow Reader users to save the data they typed, choose File > Salvage As Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable More Tools (Includes Grade Backup & Save).

  1. Click the Print push , or choose File > Print .

  2. Choose a printer from the bill of fare at the height of the Print dialog box.

  3. In the Comments And Forms menu in the upper-right area of the Print dialog box, choose one of the following, and then click OK :

    • (Interactive or flat grade) To print the class and the typed entries, cull Certificate . This selection prints text you've typed using the Add together Text tool.

    • (Interactive or flat form) To impress the form, the typed entries, and whatever comments on the form, choose Document And Markups . This option prints text y'all've typed using the Add Text tool.

    • (Interactive grade only) To print merely the typed entries and non the form itself, choose Form Fields Just .

Articulate unsaved form entries

  1. Choose Tools > Prepare Forms . In the right paw pane, click More then choose Articulate Form .

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