Various questions about FormsCentral features

[raigovind93]

Hi Everyone,

I am using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.

I needed to create a form. Upon hitting create form, Adobe FormsCentral opened. I am having a couple of issues with the tool in terms of possible missing features or my inability to find them:

Is this possible in FormsCentral?

1. I would like to made field heights larger without increasing the font size. Currently field heights only expand if I increase the font size.

2. I would like to split the page into three sections, each section having a different background color.

3. When I save as a PDF form, the form fields have a different design than that in FormsCentral, with FormsCentral having nice design and thick bordered boxes in Acrobat.

Questions:

3. Form Central allows me to make the form between 300px and 1500px. How wide should I have it if I want this form to be printable on a 8.5X11 paper? What is the max number of elements I can have on page before I know I need to start a new page?

4. Once the form is generated from FormsCentral to Acrobat, it seems, that the features in FormsCentral, are already there in Acrobat, so can I just use Acrobat to design forms in the first place?

Thank you in advance!

[George_Johnson · Accepted solution]

I'd discourage you from using FormsCentral. It is no longer supported and it was most advantageously used with the online service that allowed the forms to be submitted to the FormsCentral web server and the form data could be collected.

The alternative is to design the layout of the form in something like InDesign or even Word, generate a PDF, and add the fields with Acrobat. You have far more control this way and can do all of the things you mentioned