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Interactive form

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October 28, 2021
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I know that InDesign has the ability to create interactive forms with Buttons and Forms feature. How can I have that same ability in Illustrator? Is there a plug in maybe? Also, I know you can create a form in Acrobate...the problem I am trying to solve is I want a form that I do not have to recreate every time I send a proof out. The interactive form needs to be on the same page as my art in the .pdf but I don't want to keep recreating the form every time. Any suggetions would be appreciated.

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Correct answer JR Boulay

How can I have that same ability in Illustrator?

Design the layout with Illustrator, export as PDF, and add form fields using Acrobat Pro.

When you have changes to make, export a new PDF with Illustrator and use the "Replace Pages" feature in Acrobat Pro.

This function only replaces the layout, the form fields and all other elements (metadata, …) remain untouched.

JR Boulay

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How can I have that same ability in Illustrator?

Design the layout with Illustrator, export as PDF, and add form fields using Acrobat Pro.

When you have changes to make, export a new PDF with Illustrator and use the "Replace Pages" feature in Acrobat Pro.

This function only replaces the layout, the form fields and all other elements (metadata, …) remain untouched.

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radzmar

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Illustrator has no forms abilities. If you're already okay with the form features you can already add with InDesign, you could save your artwork from Illustrator as PDF and place it in the background of your InDesign document. The form fields on top it. Everytime you change the artwork, you only have to replace the background element in InDesign. However, if you need scriptings in your form, there's additional work to to. If the form fields remain the same, you can use the Action Wizard in Acrobat or its JavaScript console to add scriptings to the fields or buttons. This initial efford for this might be high, but later you can recreate the same form with new artwork in 2 minutes or less.

Julie5FDFAuthor

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Yes, that was one of my solutions but my art is created in Illustrator and I don't want to add another program in the mix. Plus, this would cause the "proofer" the limited ability to look at color seperations in Acrobat since bringing in the Illustrartor file into InDesign placed it as an image therefor giving it CMYK color seps in Acrobate

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@Julie5FDF As already said, Illustrator does not have any capability to create forms.

InDesign has a complete set of tools to do what you what to do.

Plus, this would cause the "proofer" the limited ability to look at color seperations in Acrobat since bringing in the Illustrartor file into InDesign placed it as an image therefor giving it CMYK color seps in Acrobate
By @Julie5FDF

Color separations are USUALLY CMYK + spot colors (if they were used) for everything, both text and graphics, and imported graphics from Illustrator are separated correctly. But you can change that in Acrobat's Output Preview utility to simulate an RGB profile, such as sRGB.

What kind of seps were you talking about?

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