Instructions for designing forms in FrameMaker?

Report · Mar 08, 2012

I've seen the webinar links for form design in FrameMaker... but unfortunately, I need to know before the middle of May. I've hunted through the user instructions and trawled the web but haven't found anything. Can anyone point me at any documentation explaining how to go about this?

Thanks in advance, Alison

Report · Mar 08, 2012

I think you've probably seen notice of webinars about third-party

software-- one of the TimeSavers Assistants at

http://www.microtype.com/timesavers_Assistants.html. There may be some

documentation on the microtype.com site, but I'm not sure.

Report · Mar 08, 2012

Yes, I think that's the one. I'd registered the webinar was third-party, but thought just third-party training... hadn't realised it was a plug-in. I'll read through the site a bit more thoroughly.

Does anyone know if it's possible WITHOUT the plug-in (ie the plug-in is automating a more tedious manual task)? And if so, where I can get directions (the microtype site - understandably - contains instructions for the plug-in).

Reason for query: I've been offered some work to update/convert/design some forms but the client has stipulated FrameMaker. I've used FM for years, but never for forms so was a little surprised. Certainly (as far as I'm aware), the actual form part would happen in Acrobat, as that's what happens with other PDF forms I've done (starting point often in Word). I think I may end up passing on this one...

Alison

Report · Mar 13, 2012

Yes, I am sure your final form has to be in Acrobat.

I have had some success with Acrobat’s automatic form-making. Essentially, you feed it something that looks like a form and it guesses which bits should be fields. There’s a brief tutorial here (using InDesign, but should be transferrable to FrameMaker).

Report · May 16, 2017

Search for the document titled "Cooking up Enhanced PDF with pdfmark Recipes"