Episode 53: Acrobat-Friendly Form Design, Part 2
Checkboxes and radio buttons and comb fields…oh my! After the podcast’s longest hiatus ever, and a cliffhanger gap worthy of The Sopranos, The InDesigner returns with a new episode that (finally!) finishes off the topic of designing smart for Acrobat forms.
In this episode, I take a look at adding form elements to an InDesign layout to create Acrobat-friendly checkboxes, radio buttons and comb fields, all of which can be achieved with a little help from anchored objects, GREP find/change and tables.
You may also notice new feature added to the podcast starting with this episode: chapters. You can now jump right to a specific part of the lesson using the chapters built into the video file.
Watch the episode here (15:30 | 45.5MB), or you can subscribe via iTunes.
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December 16th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Great new video!
Did you have another baby in-between episode? j\k
December 16th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Ha! No…just spent a lot of time with the one I have…and working on the Lynda.com project…you know…all that life stuff.
December 16th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Nice to see you back, Mr. Murphy. FYI, this ep is not showing up on the iTunes podcast directory, nor in my subscription list. Downloading direct, though! Thanks.
December 16th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Yes…I noticed that, too, Jeff. I’m looking into it. Thanks for the heads up.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Michael,
Nice finish to the form design topic. I also appreciate the link to the government webinar—your walk-through of the distribution process was very helpful.
Thanks once again.
Steve
December 17th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
He’s back!
January 20th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Thanks Michael. A video for you.
http://mclamag.com/bobbyb/making-of-the-january-2010-cover.php
AO
March 10th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Great two sessions on pdf forms and InDesign. Thanks for the videocasts! You do a great job!
I have a question on the next step of forms in your tutorial and that is having fields add up and have a “total”. Say you have a list of costs and then a total amount at the end of a table. Is there a way to do this directly in acrobat or indesign? Or how do you create this?
Ian