5.3 for Windows

FOXIT READER 5.3
User Manual
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Chapter 6 – Forms
Foxit Reader is extremely useful for form filling and form des igning. Please read
below for more information.
General Information
There are two kinds of “form” files. First, 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 should be filled with the typewriter
feature in Foxit Reader. This is called a Non-interactive PDF Form.
You will need to navigate and adjust views of a form in exactly the same way
that you do in ordinary PDFs.
Interactive Form
For interactive forms, you will see a document message bar appear between the
Reader toolbars and the form itself. To hide this message bar, please click the
drop-down button and select Hide Document Message Bar. If you do not
want to see it again when reopening this file, please choose Advanced > Form
Utilities > Always Hide Document Message Bar. To show it, redo the steps.
The left side of the message bar typically informs you that this document is a
fillable form. The right side of the message bar has some buttons. The first is a
Highlight Fields button, 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. Check
or uncheck it to meet your need.
The other button enables you to select what fields you want to highlight.
Check All Fields to highlight all the interactive fields, or uncheck All Fields to
select some certain fields to be highlighted.