Meeting Summary: Designing and Distributing Interactive PDF Forms

Wed, May 27th, 2009 at 1:00 PM

Adobe Systems - Amsterdam

Event Details

On May 27th, 2008, we had our first meeting. In a single year, we've grown so fast that we already have almost 400 members! In this meeting, we celebrated our one-year anniversary. We look forward to many more successful years to come!

Gabriel Powell (Chapter Leader) taught us how to design a form in Adobe InDesign, export that form as a static PDF file, and use Adobe Acrobat Pro to automatically convert it into an interactive form. Along the way, he shared a wealth of tips that make the form creation process easier.

During the break, we celebrated our one year anniversary with a toast. After the break, Gabriel picked up from where he left off and explained different methods for distributing a form and collecting responses. He showed us how to use Acrobat.com (a free service) to distribute a form and automatically download and organize the responses. He also showed us how to send a form as an email attachment and manually collect the responses in your email inbox. After Gabriel finished, Guy van der Kolk (Assistant Chapter Leader) shared some time-saving Adobe Illustrator tips!

During our raffle, we gave away some great prizes including two subscriptions to InDesign Magazine, two copies of Instant InDesign, a copy of Learn Adobe Photoshop CS4 by Video, and of course a copy of Adobe InDesign CS4.

Download the Demo Files

Gabriel is providing his demo files for us to download. If you would like to download them to practice creating a form yourself, you're more than welcome.

View the Photos

We have a new Flickr page where we will be posting the photos of every meeting.
The URL is www.flickr.com/photos/netherlands-idug

Join the Discussion on LinkedIn

If you are a member of LinkedIn, join our LinkedIn group where you can post news, discuss hot topics with other members, and build your network.

Thank you

• Van Gennep – Specializing in planning, process and workflow management since 1988.

• StockLayouts – Providing professional graphic design templates.

• LJS Automatisering – Dé Apple reseller en service provider van Den Haag!

• InstantInDesign.com – Your resource for learning high-speed production skills with Adobe InDesign.

• Adobe

Next Meeting

We are planning our next meeting for August 2009. Stay tuned for more information.