11.2.1 for Windows

Foxit PDF Editor
Chapter 9: Forms User Manual
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Form Fields
Foxit PDF Editor provides a group of buttons that can be used to create and design
form fields in interactive PDF forms. You are able to add form fields like push buttons,
text fields, check boxes, combo boxes, list boxes and radio buttons to an interactive
PDF form and specify their properties. Foxit PDF Editor also offers form field
recognition commands to recognize form fields in PDF documents. You can save time
and mouse actions by using form field recognition to create form fields.
To add a form field to a PDF, select a type of form field button from the Form tab and
the cursor changes to crosshair . Drag an area in the desired position to add the
form field. For details, please refer to Buttons.
Form field recognition
There are two commands for form field recognition in PDF forms: Designer Assistant
and Run Form Field Recognition.
The Designer Assistant command automatically detects form fields that can be
created on PDF pages and displays a blue frame where there is a suggested form field.
By default, when you select any type of form field button from the Form tab, the
Designer Assistant command will be selected and enabled automatically. With any
type of form field button selected, as you move the cursor on the page, a blue
frame appears if the cursor is hovering above an area which is detected as a form field.
If you want to add a form field at that position, just click on it without dragging an area.
And if there are multiple form fields detected, you can complete the form field creation
with just a few clicks. (Tip: You can disable the auto-detection by clicking the Designer
Assistant command again when you are creating form fields. Then the command will no
longer be selected automatically next time you create form fields. To enable it again, select
the command before you create form fields.)
Alternatively, you can use the Run Form Field Recognition command to recognize
form fields through the whole document. To run form field recognition in a PDF
document, do as the following:
1. Click Form > Run Form Field Recognition. All fillable fields in the document
will be recognized and highlighted.
2. All the corresponding types of form fields will be automatically created and
named with the text near the form fields. (Take the text fields for an example