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USING ACROBAT 9 STANDARD
Forms
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Showing and hiding icons
A. Pointer not over button area B. Pointer enters button area C. Pointer exits button area
Using the Button tool
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PDF file contains a map of France, drag across the area where you want a detailed map of Paris to pop up.
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Double-click the button.
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Click the Options tab, and choose Icon Only from the Layout menu.
Choose Push from the Behavior menu, and then choose Rollover from the State list.
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Click Choose Icon, and then click Browse. Select the file type from the File Of Type, navigate to the location of the
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image file, and then double-click the file. In this example, you would select a map of Paris. Click OK to accept the
previewed image as the button.
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Click the Appearance tab. If needed, deselect Border Color and Fill Color, and then click Close.
If you are in the edit mode, click Preview. The image field you defined appears as the pointer rolls over the button
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area and disappears when it exits.
If you want the image to be larger than the rollover area, or if you want the image to be in a different location than
the image button that pops up, use the Show/Hide A Field action. First, you specify an icon for the button that will be
shown and hidden. Next, you create a second button that acts as a hot spot when the mouse rolls over it. You do not assign
an icon for the appearance of the second button. Instead, you use the Actions tab to show the first button when the pointer
enters the second button, and hide the first button when the pointer exits.
Publishing interactive web forms
About web forms
PDF forms can be useful for submitting and collecting information over the web. This is done by providing several
button actions that perform functions similar to some HTML scripting macros. You must have a Common Gateway
Interface (CGI) application on the web server to collect and route the data to a database. Any existing CGI application
that collects data from forms (in HTML, FDF, or XML format) can be used.
Before you make your forms web-ready, make sure that your form-field names match those set in the CGI application.
Important: CGI scripts must be built outside Acrobat, and their creation is not covered by the Adobe Acrobat product.
Add submit functionality
Use the Submit A Form action to send form data to an email address or to a web server by specifying a URL. You can
also use the submit button to send other files back to a server or database. For example, you can attach scanned images
or files to a form. The files are submitted along with the rest of the form data when you click the Submit button.
If your PDF form contains an email-based submit button, you can use the Distribute Form workflow to facilitate
distributing the form to others.
Select Forms > Add Or Edit Fields, then select Button from the Add New Field list, and create a button.
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, drag across the area where you want the pop-up button to appear. For example, if the
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