11.2.1 for Windows
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1 – Introduction
- Chapter 2 – Get Started
- Workspace Basics
- Customize the toolbar
- Customize the Skin
- Mouse/Touch Mode
- Set Preferences
- 3D
- Accessibility
- Action Wizard
- AIP Settings (Pro Only)
- Commenting
- Create PDF
- Documents
- ECM Integration
- Editing
- File Associations
- Forms
- Full Screen
- General
- History
- Identity
- Index
- JavaScript
- Languages
- Layout Grid
- Measuring
- Multimedia (Legacy)
- Page Display
- Reading
- Reviewing
- Search
- Security
- PDF Sign
- Signature
- Speech
- Spelling
- Tablet
- Time Stamp Servers
- Trust Manager
- Updater
- Chapter 3 – Read
- Open PDFs
- Save PDFs
- Close a PDF
- Export PDFs
- View PDFs
- Work on 3D Content in PDFs
- Select & Copy
- Search & Index in PDFs
- Compare PDF Files
- Word Count
- Chapter 4 – Create
- Create a PDF in Different Ways
- One-click PDF Creation from Any File
- Create PDFs in the Foxit PDF Editor Application Window
- Create PDFs in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Create PDFs or PDF Portfolios with Microsoft Outlook
- Create PDFs in Microsoft Visio (Pro Only)
- Create PDFs in Microsoft Project (Pro Only)
- Create PDFs using the Print command
- Create PDFs within web browsers
- Create PDFs using Print to Evernote
- Create PDFs using Scanner
- Create and customize a PDF portfolio
- OCR PDFs and PDF Portfolios
- Create a table of contents from bookmarks
- Industry Standard Validation and Creation
- PDF versions
- Create a PDF in Different Ways
- Chapter 5 – Edit
- Undo and Redo
- Links
- Bookmarks
- Page thumbnails
- Destinations
- File Attachments
- Images
- PDF Optimizer
- Action Wizard (Pro Only)
- Work with Video & Audio
- Search and Replace Text
- Paragraph Editing
- Objects
- Articles
- Spelling Check
- Working with Layers
- PDF Properties
- Chapter 6 – Organize
- Insert Pages
- Rotate, Move, Swap and Delete Pages
- Extract, Duplicate and Replace Pages
- Split PDFs into multiple files
- Crop Pages
- Flatten Pages
- Reverse Pages
- Rearrange pages based on the bookmark order
- Header & Footer, Watermark & Background to PDFs
- Bates Numbering (Pro Only)
- Change the format of page numbering
- Chapter 7 – Comment
- Commenting tools
- About pop-up notes
- Change the appearance of comments in the Properties dialog box
- Managing Comments
- Chapter 8 – Share PDFs
- Email Documents
- Send to Evernote
- Send to OneNote
- SharePoint Integration
- Shared Review and Email Review
- ndOffice Integration
- iManage Work Integration
- OpenText eDOCS Integration
- OpenText Documentum Integration
- OpenText Content Suite Integration
- Worldox Integration
- ShareFile Integration
- Epona DMSforLegal Integration
- Alfresco
- Chapter 9 – Forms
- Interactive Form and Non-interactive form
- Fill in PDF Forms
- Comment on Forms
- Manage Form Data
- Form Fields
- JavaScript
- Chapter 10 – Security
- Check PDF security
- Password Protection & Certificate Protection
- AIP Protect (Pro Only)
- Remove hidden data
- Redaction (Pro Only)
- Windows Information Protection (WIP)
- FIPS mode
- Trust settings
- Chapter 11 – Signature
- Chapter 12 – Accessibility
- Accessibility Check and Fixes
- Accessible reading and navigation through accessibility preference setting and shortcut keys
- Create accessible PDFs (Pro Only)
- Chapter 13 – Foxit Admin Console
- Chapter 14 – Print
- Chapter 15 – Appendices
- Quick Installation Guide
- SharePoint Configuration
- Web Service Configuration
- Work with Foxit PDF Editor via VBA scripts in Microsoft Office
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Single-key Accelerators
- Keys for Selecting Commands
- Keys for Working with Comments
- Keys for Navigating a PDF Document
- Keys for Working with Forms
- Keys for Working with PDF Portfolios
- Keys for Navigating Task Panes
- Keys for General Navigating
- Keys for Working with Navigation Panels
- Keys for Navigating the Help Window
- Keys for Accessibility
- Command Lines
- Contact Us
Foxit PDF Editor
Chapter 9: Forms User Manual
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Chapter 9 – Forms
Foxit PDF Editor is extremely useful for form filling and form designing. Please read
below for more information.
Interactive Form and Non-interactive form
There are two kinds of “form” files. One is a PDF file with fillable fields, which enables
you to fill the form directly by clicking the form fields without using other features.
This is called an Interactive PDF Form. The other kind of form is a plain PDF file with
lines and texts, which can be filled using the tools in the Foxit eSign tab. This is called
a Non-interactive PDF Form.
Interactive Form
For interactive forms, you will see a message box appear in the top-right corner of the
application window. The message box informs you that this document is a fillable form.
Click to collapse the notification message. If you do not want to see the
notification message again when reopening this file, check Don’t show again option
in the notification message. Clicking the gear icon in the notification message can
change the preferences about notification message setting. Please refer to
Notification Messages preferences for more information.
Foxit PDF Editor highlights the form fields in the document by default, which colors
the backgrounds of all blanks to be filled in and outlines any required blanks, making
it easy to see them at a glance. If you don’t need to highlight the fields, navigate to
Form > Tool Setting > uncheck Highlight Fields.
AcroForm and XFA (XML Forms Architecture) Form
Foxit PDF Editor now supports both AcroForm and XFA Form. You can fill in XFA forms