I have forms which I repeatedly have to use.

My idea: I scan them in, use them as "watermark" but how can I make it easy that I can jump from one place to the other to fill in the spaces?



I am attaching you one of the forms (the main one is multi page so I haven t even thought about how to do watermark page per page) so you can see my problem.

Many thanks to all

Attached Files

Spanish form Strassbourg 2.pdf (49.8 KB, 17 views)

You would do better to re-create the form from scratch (or at least use an OCR process to extract the text). You could then use content controls, combined with 'editing restrictions' or 'forms protection' so that the tab key could be used to take you from one content control to the next. See:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...010030746.aspx
http://www.word-2010.com/create-a-form-in-word/

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Another option (sorry I know it is a Word forum)!
You can use Adobe Form Wizard. I took your form and did the default form wizard. It places fields in places it thinks are fields. You can make adjustments to field size and single or multiple lines and add fields. You save the pdf and then publish via email or server for people to fill in and return to your email or whatever you set up. I believe you can do a trial or you can subscribe for a month or 12 months with Adobe.
Depends on whether you have to create the document in Word or can use Adobe's form capabilities.
You can do this with any scanned document saved as a pdf usually.
I attach your pdf converted with form wizard. I moved one field up and made it a multiline field. I have not published it - which is the next save you do to send it to your clients.
Just another option you could use if it suits your purposes. You can see the form needs to have the font size set in the fields and you need a multiple field when you have 2 lines of dotted rows.

Kind regards
Janine

Attached Files

Spanish form Strassbourg Form.pdf (53.4 KB, 14 views)

this morning used Acrobat XI pro (trial form) to put it in - will now try forms which I did not know about!

many thanks,
Mark