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In this tutorial, we will learn how to create an interactive PDF form from scratch using Adobe Acrobat Pro. We will explore how to add and organize form fields to create a functional PDF form.

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00:09so now let's create a form from scratch in order to do that over here you can
00:14see that there's prepare form if you do not see it here you can go to tools and
00:18here you can find prepare form so let me go back over here I'm going to click on
00:22prepare form I'm going to select this blank file which I started with and I'm
00:27going to press start and I'm going to save it as a different version so I'm
00:31going to say tututube interactive right here and I'm going to save it so there
00:36you go now my form fills appear so over here you can see some form fills over
00:41here so like for example this text field so I can simply click over here so let's
00:46say this is going to be my first name so this is going to be my first name right
00:51here I can also resize this out just like this I can actually copy this and paste
00:56this out as well press ctrl V and I'm going to create a last name section so
01:01over here I can simply say last name right there all right so this is the
01:06last name section and now what I'm going to do is let's say I'm going to add in
01:11male or female just likes it so it is going to be something like a radio button
01:15so that it's you can only choose one so I'm going to click on radio button right
01:20here let me click here and this is the choice one and the group name is going to
01:25be gender and over here I'm going to go over here and I'm going to type in male
01:32all right so that's the first choice I'm going to copy and paste this and this is
01:37going to be female so I'm just going to so I'm just going to go over here double click
01:43this and that's it gender right here so on the option right here on the option this radio button
01:51choice it's a circle that's going to be a female right there so that's going to be male and that's
01:57going to be female as you can see and over here you can see the choice there's also other options
02:02like
02:03check marks so I can add in something like agree so I'm just going to say agree right here and
02:10then
02:10over here you can see a list so over here I'm going to add in a list and say this
02:16list are hobbies so
02:17this is hobbies right here and I'm going to go into all properties and I can add in some selections
02:25right here so over here you don't see anything right now but in the options I can add in the
02:31items
02:31right here so I'm going to say swimming I'm going to add swimming right here and then I'm going to
02:37add in
02:40volleyball right there you go and I'm going to say something like tennis right there and unless people
02:47can actually choose multiple choices just like this so I'm just creating the form fills right here
02:52there's also some drop down list right there that can go along so I can go over here and in
02:58but in
02:58drop down list you can only select one choice and not many so I'm just going to keep it over
03:04here
03:04and say let's say the drop down is going to be something like country right here I'm going to
03:10go to all properties and over here in the options right here I'm going to say India let me add
03:18India
03:18right here I'm going to add USA and I'm going to add Canada right here Canada all right let's add
03:27all of
03:28them and close this out so this is like a drop down menu that the users can choose after that
03:33you can see
03:34that there's also an image so if you want to add as a photo so you can see like attach
03:39an image so
03:41let's say profile picture but the thing about this is that the end user needs a full acrobat pro itself
03:49to actually use this feature the reader won't do so I can actually go over here in properties I can
03:54change in some tool tips and so forth so I'm just going to leave it as it is so this
03:59is going to be a
04:00profile picture right there after that there's the date so I'm going to add in a date right here
04:06this is going to be let's say the date of birth so I'm just going to keep it over here
04:10and say date
04:11of birth right there I'm going to go into the properties and over here I can select the format
04:18of the date of birth as well so let's say I'm going to choose this format right here so day
04:23month
04:24and year let's say not month day year but day month and year dd mm yy so let me just
04:32go over here
04:33yeah let's say this is the format I want just like this 0 4 December 2019 all right so I'm
04:38just going
04:39to select that out and press close so there's the date of birth choice that I have there's also the
04:44signature field like a digital signature if you want it so you can keep it somewhere like around
04:49this place so I'm just going to add in a signature right here the same signature all right there you
04:55go so that's the signature and that's the barcode what this actually does is it creates a barcode of
05:00the things barcode of the data which actually we entered here so you can also keep this over here
05:07the barcode view encodes the data in a PDF format so I can actually keep it over here so you
05:12can see
05:12that this actually creates the barcode of the data you enter over here so this is not actually used too
05:19much but anyways it's good to know that it is there so I can actually rename the field as well
05:24so I'm
05:24just going to see barcode and there you go so pretty advanced stuff right there so now what else I
05:31want
05:32to do is I want to add in a submit button for example so let me just keep everything over
05:36here so let's say
05:37I want to add in a button maybe a reset button and a submit button so I'm going to click
05:42over here and
05:43then keep a button right over here so let's say this button is going to be reset it is going
05:49to
05:49act as a reset button so I'm going to grow to its properties right here and let's say in its
05:55options
05:55in its actions when someone clicks the mouse it executes the menu item no it actually resets
06:01everything so that's the option or resetting an option so let me just click reset an option and
06:08then just add this up so once you go to add you can select the fields which you want to
06:14reset so I
06:18actually resets the form once I click it so I also want to create a submit button it actually sends
06:24everything out so I'm going to create another button right here which is going to be a submit button so
06:30let me go to all properties and over here in trigger up mouse up it is going to submit this
06:36button so
06:37submit this form let me add this out and enter the URL for this link so I'm just going to
06:43send it like
06:44mail to 222 at test.com just like this all fields send it send it out just like that all
06:55right enter
06:55the URL right there all fields and press ok and there you go that's the submit form once everything
07:02is done I can press the preview and this is how the form looks like let me click on this
07:06and you can see
07:07that I can actually send everything out as an email I can simply continue and my email
07:14application will open so you can see that the form has been attached as an email as you can see
07:19so
07:19everything is functional now what I can actually do is I can enter data right here as you can see
07:25I can choose the radio buttons male or female I can use the check mark I also have the drop
07:30down menu
07:31right here and over here this is the date form here I can add in an image that I select
07:36over here so I
07:39can browse for the file and over here in my tutor tube let's say I got some pictures I can
07:44add this
07:45press ok there you go there's my profile picture and it cannot be signed at the current state you have
07:51to close and reopen it to actually sign this source we are going to see this in a while and
07:56this is the
07:57barcode so you can actually get the barcode right here so let me just close this out right here and
08:03now I'm
08:03going to label everything out so let me just erase all of the data all right there you go so
08:10these are
08:11all fine so these this is the barcode I'm going to go over here into edit PDF add in the
08:17text the
08:17required text so let me add in the text right here this is going to be the first name and
08:24this is going
08:25to be the last name the other one is going to be the last name so let me just click
08:29on this select
08:30this out I'm going to add the text right select the text copy and paste this drag it down this
08:37is
08:37going to be the last name all right there you go that's going to be the country so I can
08:44simply go
08:44over here I've been country right so there you go that's the country this is going to be male right
08:52here let me just drag this down and another one is going to be female all right female okay there
09:00you
09:00go this is going to be agree right so it actually looks like a form now and this is going
09:07to be
09:08data but right that so this is going to be data but over here and this is going to be
09:14hobbies so
09:17hobbies all right and over here this is going to be profile picture there you go so just drag it
09:27out
09:27over here just like this and this is going to be signature right there you go this is going to
09:34be
09:34the signature this is the barcode of course and this is going to be the reset okay there you go
09:41this
09:42has to be on the top so control x control f sorry control v right so this is not actually
09:50showing
09:50on the top I'm just going to leave it at the side for now or keep it below and I'm
09:56going to work around
09:56with the form itself so I'm just going to go over here let's work around with the form a bit
10:02so I'm
10:02just going to close this going to prepare form and over here I want this to be transparent because
10:08I cannot see the reset button right there I'm going to go into the properties and over here in
10:13pro appearance I'm going to turn on the border but not the fill so I can see the reset right
10:19here
10:19same goes for submit properties I'm going to add in black for the border but no fill color and press
10:28close all right there you go now I can actually work around with it so let me close this out
10:32and
10:32now I'm going to add in a text right there so I'm going to go over here and to edit
10:38PDF I'm going to
10:39add in a text right there and I'm going to say submit there you go so let me just drag
10:45it over
10:46here so it actually looks like form there you go now this looks like a form so I'm going to
10:50save it
10:51out in my desktop I'm going to say interactive final and save it out just like that so once you
10:58do
10:58that I can actually close this out and I'm going to open up the form interactive final let me open
11:04up and there you go it's a trusted certificate I'm going to press ok and there you go this has
11:10been
11:10updated so I can add in my names and everything in this section right here so I can click over
11:14here
11:15I'm going to say yes name and last name and I can choose the country I can choose male or
11:24female I can check on
11:26the agree I can select multiple level of choices right here so I can actually go over here and then
11:33select the hobbies out ok and then I can also select the drop-down list and choose the date date
11:43of birth
11:43for example I want to go let's say far beyond in the year I'm going to go back and let's
11:50say I'm going to
11:50around 1991 June 11 all right there you go I can also choose the profile picture right over here choose
11:57a different one right here ok press ok there you go another profile picture you can also continue a
12:05digital ID if you have a digital ID then you can configure a digital ID right here you can use
12:11a
12:11digital ID scanner to actually use the digital ID you can also create a new digital ID from a digital
12:17file
12:17so according to that you can add in a signature right here and here's the barcode and if you want
12:23to reset everything out you can simply reset this out and there you go everything else is gone again
12:29so you can start typing again there you go and the information changes as you can see right there
12:34right there you go so everything else changes just like that and once you're done with everything you
12:40are you're done with the date of birth you're setting all of the options you can simply press submit you
12:46can
12:46use the default web app mail application and it'll mail the content right there so everything is
12:52interactive as you can see so this is how you can create a form entirely from scratch name Adobe Acrobat
12:59Pro DC so if you guys learn something as always and as always please like comment share and subscribe
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