Comments on: Episode 52: Acrobat-Friendly Form Design, Part 1

By: absatzsetzer.de» Blogarchiv » Formulare mit InDesign und Acrobat (2)

absatzsetzer.de» Blogarchiv » Formulare mit InDesign und Acrobat (2) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:55:29 +0000

[...] der Einsatz entsprechender Formate unbedingt empfehlenswert. Ich habe im ersten Teil bereits auf Michael Murphy’s Tips zur Verwendung von Formaten bei Textfeldern hingewiesen. Aber auch verankerte Rahmen lassen sich [...]

By: Philip Trauring

Philip Trauring — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:10:24 +0000

This seems like a great time-saver. Is there any way to automatically generate combo boxes as well? If not, is there a way to convert a text field to a combobox so one can take advantage of the auto-recognition to get the fields in the right place, and then convert them to comboboxes (hopefully more than one at a time if the options are the same). Thanks.

By: pollydesignerd

pollydesignerd — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:37:51 +0000

Haha, I suppose I felt it was ok for a former 13-year-old girl (former referring to the age not the gender) to make such a comment.

I just came back to post that I had discovered the tooltip trick by accident and here you had already sherlocked the solution for me. Thanks! The strangest thing about the random capitalization is that it seems to change whenever I generate a new PDF. So “aDDress” changed to “adrESS” or somesuch. Makes me think it’s related to some font issues I’ve been having. (Got a font manager you can recommend?)

I recently discovered your podcasts and am already a huge fan. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Have you ever thought of doing webinars? I for one would be very interested in getting my boss to pay for me to nerd-out for an hour or so to learn some new tricks.

By: Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:23:27 +0000

Polly — I thought I knew what the problem was until you specifically mentioned that the text is typed as all upper-case in the InDesign document. If that’s true, I’m not sure where the odd capitalization originates, but if you’re fixing the field names in form editing mode and still seeing the improper case when hovering over the fields in normal mode, you’ll also need to go into the Field Properties dialog and change the Tooltip text as well. Acrobat names the field and tooltip the same automatically based on the adjacent text, so if you just re-name the field itself in the Fields panel, you haven’t changed the tooltip text. You’ll need to double-cick the field (or right click it for a context menu) when in form editing mode to get to Field Properties dialog and specifically change the Tooltip.

I haven’t seen this kind of case changing, and I would have bet good money it was that text with All Caps turned on was actually typed that way. If I find out anything more, I’ll post it here.

One last thing…my wife would never forgive me if I didn’t chime in and defend her gender by saying that a thirteen year old boy is just as capable of chaotic capitalization as a thirteen year old girl.

By: pollydesignerd

pollydesignerd — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:03:21 +0000

I keep having a problem where the field tags in Acrobat have random capitalization problems. I tried renaming the fields and in the form editor mode they look fine, but when you hover the cursor over a field in normal mode the field names with random capitalization make it look like a 13-year-old girl typed it. (Things like aDDress and faX). Everything is uppercase in the original file (typed as upper, not using the all caps button). I’ve tried everything I can think of and nothing seems to fix it. Suggestions?

By: Dan Cunningham

Dan Cunningham — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:29:39 +0000

First of all, thanks for the help you have given me over the years. Through University and now in my first job as a graphic designer. Cheers!

I’m currently working on an interactive PDF for a client. I’ve just finished 6 of them and the client is really happy with them. I used your tutorials on Tables and also on making an interactive PDF, they were great.

The client is now asking if it is possible to have the design as a working HTML page. Any ideas??? Keep in mind, I have interactive buttons with scroll over and I have used tables with styles. I tried exporting to dreamweaver but I then lose all my style and design. What do you think?

Thanks

- Dan

By: Best of InDesign May 2009 — Gurus Unleashed

Best of InDesign May 2009 — Gurus Unleashed — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:25:28 +0000

[...] in InDesignCreating PDFs from InDesign is another trending topic with a video by Gabriel Powell and another by Michael Murphy as well as an article from Steve Werner on using InDesign page transitions for [...]

By: Bill Eger

Bill Eger — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:42:02 +0000

InDesign CS4 is among the most exciting and productive applications in many years. As a user of Ventura Publisher back in the “good old days” it reminds me of how software can reflect and enable the many skills necessary in good publication design. And, yes, I bought your Styles book when the ink was still damp!

I have some other books, too, but I remain confused every time I open a new project. Is there a chapter I can find in a book or online that is devoted to Getting Started. This form lesson includes some of the reasons for my plight because there seems to be some material in every project that isn’t being called by the InDesign code. Thank you for all you do.

By: Lucia

Lucia — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:06:57 +0000

So happy you’re back!!

By: Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:12:19 +0000

Jane –

The style requires some text (i.e. Name, Company, etc.) followed by an En Space in order to switch to the nested underline style, which is triggered by either a tab or a right-align tab.