Form Elements
Designing forms in Adobe Acrobat Professional 9 is easier than before with its new form isolation mode, but it can still be a tedious process. For example, if you are creating a series of check boxes it can be annoying to have to re-size each one individually every time you draw a new one.
Save time by right clicking (Ctrl-Click Mac) and choosing “use current properties as new defaults”. This will ensure that every time you draw out a new check box it will be the same.
This can also be used for text fields. I usually assign my text fields to be input with 10pt Helvetica. Once again, it can be annoying to have to manually change this field. Therefore I use the trick mentioned above to ensure that my text fields are all 10pt.
That’s a great tip.
I myself have created a “morgue” of various types of fields, current date, print, reset, etc. and I use this file to copy and paste into a new form document.
Thank you for this wonderful tip! I am in the midst of making multiple forms and tweaking all the fields individually has been brutal. My life is easier as of – now.