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1960sgal
1960sgal
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September 27, 2023
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Help learning How to create editable address labels using Adobe Illustrator and Acrobat Pro

  • September 27, 2023
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Help - I am missing something obvious that the entire world apparently knows how to do. Please TEACH ME. I have worked for years on Adobe illustrator, and own Acrobat Pro in creative cloud but am not proficient. I want to create original address label sheets with my own art in AI based on Avery labels templates. Then Export the PDF into Adobe Acrobat pro to produce an EDITABLE form (Sheet of customizable address labels) that I can sell on my website. I an running into all kinds of problems. 

• I save the PDF for the backgrond image out of AI as PDF. 

• Then Open Adobe Acrobat Pro (AAP) and "Create A Form".
• Add a text field, add its properties (CMD E - font, alignment, color).

• Then click PREVIEW... Add Text. Exit Preview - Before I can duplicate the text boxes and name each, the pdf flattens itself - cuts itself into pieces, and I can no longer work with it. I HAVE BEEN trying for a month now. I am putty in your hands. All ears.

DOES ANYONE know how to guide me through what should be a very simple process? 

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    Correct answer Abambo

    The Adobe fora are not a learning platform on how to learn complex operations. You get help, if you are stuck with a detail of your complex operation.

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    1960sgal
    1960sgalAuthor
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    October 5, 2023

    To wrap this exercise up. I did not get the support that I needed to learn this process here; Instaed I had to join a paid website. It was worth it. Maybe it will also help someone in future: https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/Fillable-PDF-Design-How-To-Create-Branded-Interactive-Forms/2080705005/projects?via=Selected-SearchSuggestion

    Abambo
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    AbamboCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    October 5, 2023

    The Adobe fora are not a learning platform on how to learn complex operations. You get help, if you are stuck with a detail of your complex operation.

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
      try67
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      try67Community Expert
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      September 27, 2023

      The problem is with the "Add Text" command. This is not how you fill in a form field. It's how you add static text to the file.

      Instead, you need to exit the Prepare Form mode, and not into Preview mode. Just close it entirely and return to the normal viewing mode, and you should be able to fill in your form fields.

      1960sgal
      1960sgalAuthor
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      September 27, 2023

      OK so now im starting again and i am trying to duplicate empty text boxes... I click into the pdf backgrond by accident and it does this: 

      Any form fields that have the same name in the merged documents are now merged into one field. If you want the values in these fields to be unique, then you need to create a PDF Portfolio  instead of merging the files. To create a PDF Portfolio, choose File > Create PDF Portfolio.

      There is no resolving this once it happens as far as I can see I have to start over?

      try67
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      try67Community Expert
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      September 27, 2023

      I don't understand. This message will appear when you try to merge files that have fields with the same name. Is that what you're doing?

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