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July 1, 2020
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Locking a background layer when creating a form

  • July 1, 2020
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I am really hoping someone can help me before I lose all my hair! 😞 I am making an editable homeschool planner for my shop.  I have made forms before and am pretty familiar with it, but I have never made one with quite so many pags before.  

I am running into a major issue every time I try to create form fields for a calendar on one of the pages.  While I am trying to move form fields to adjust their position or size,  sometimes I accidently click off of the form field and the result is that it shifts the background image and ultimately messes it all up.  If I don't notice it right away, then I have to go back in and re-add the page and start all over.  I am out of ideas.  I have tried opening the psd in illustrator and extracting it as an interactive PDF so that I can lock the layer, but it still moves stuff on the background.  

 

What I am doing wrong? 

 

Here is an example of what the issue is: 

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Bernd Alheit
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Community Expert
July 1, 2020

Make sure that you select only the form fields.

Participating Frequently
July 17, 2020

What if the background takes up the entire page? There's no way to draw a 'selection box' without clicking on the background image and moving it. That's the situation I'm facing, and I can't find a "Lock" function for images and objects that will freeze it in place to prevent dragging it around by mistake.