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Forms

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• To distribute the fields evenly between the leftmost and rightmost fields, choose Align, Distribute Or Center

>Distribute Horizontally.note: The Distribute command in Tools > Forms has a different function. Use that

command to send your form to others, who fill in the information and return the data to you.

Delete a form field

1 If you are not in the form editing mode, choose Tools > Forms > Edit.

2 In the Fields panel or the page view, select the form fields that you want to delete.

3 Press Delete, or choose Edit > Delete.

PDF barcode form fields

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PDF forms basics

About barcodes

Barcode fields translate a user’s form entries into a visual pattern that can be scanned, interpreted, and incorporated

into a database. Barcodes are helpful when users submit the form on paper or by fax.

The advantages of using barcodes are that they save time, eliminate the need for responses to be manually read and

recorded, and bypass data-entry errors that can occur.

A typical barcode workflow includes the following phases:

• The form author makes sure that Automatically Calculate Field Values is selected in the forms preferences, and then

creates the form in Acrobat, setting up all the other fields as usual.

• The form author adds the barcode field to the form, setting up the barcode so that it captures the needed data.

• The form author enables the form for Reader users (if the author wants to allow Reader users to save their own filled-

in copy of the form or if it contains certain barcode fields).

• The form author distributes the form to other users.

• Users fill in the form on their computers and submit it electronically or print a copy and deliver the copy to the form

distributor.

• The received barcode data is interpreted in one of the following ways, and can then be reviewed, sorted, and used

by the form receiver:

Forms faxed to a fax server

The form receiver can use Adobe Acrobat Capture® to collect TIFF images from the fax server and place them in an

Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms Decoder watched folder, if the receiver owns those products.

Forms delivered on paper

The form receiver can scan paper forms and then use an application such as LiveCycle Barcoded Forms Decoder to

decode the barcodes within those forms.

Note: Acrobat Capture and LiveCycle Barcoded Forms Decoder are stand-alone products appropriate for enterprise

workflows and are sold separately from Acrobat.

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