Questions tagged [forms]
digital or manual layout for user input, for example address fields, tick-boxes, radio buttons.
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Should I use serif font for the labels on printed forms?
I'm redesigning printed forms for a company that has provided me with brand guidelines. Their headline font is a bold sans serif font and the font specified for body text is a serif one.
I would ...
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Interactive Forms (Indd > PDF) Placeholder text in interactive form text field
I do not believe that placeholder text (populated in a form's text field before PDF export) is currently an option. Anyone know any workarounds (bar manual inputting via Acrobat). Surprisingly, it ...
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Design an interactive template with image upload option
I'm assuming this is impossible but worth asking -
I'm trying to create a template for HR - a digital employee card - with form fields to fill in the employee's name/title/etc. as well as an image ...
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How to add images and videos to screen mock ups?
I'm a beginner in UI right now and I wanted to upload my work on Behance. But I want to put my project images on the iPhone screen mock-up. I did know basic things about it but still confused about ...
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Is there a way to set a specific form field highlight color in Indesign forms?
I have designed a form with text entry fields in Indesign. When viewed as a PDF in Acrobat the field highlight color is a purplish blue (as shown in the image here). Is there any way to set the field ...
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Any way to increase margin within form field in Indesign?
I have created a form with text entry fields in Adobe Indesign. Right now the default is that the text, when entered into the field in the PDF in Acrobat, butts up rather closely to the margin (please ...
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multilanguage font for editable pdf
I want to create a single PDF file with an editable text field/form that supports as many languages as possible.
I thought that using the Noto Sans font would be the solution, but I noticed that it ...
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Adobe InDesign transfer form field data within a document
I'm trying to find a solution to the following:
I have an interactive pdf form, created in InDesign CC and need to reuse a field form data again in the same document. In another words, what the user ...
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What should be the standard space in between label and an input control?
I have always had this question; what should be the standard and more readable space that we should add when design applications. So would like to know the best sizes for the space
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How to create an eye-catchy and easy to use form?
I have the following form (to the right), and my intent is that its:
Eye catchy
Simple to use
We are not a professional designer, hence I feel there's something wrong it, but I am not exactly sure ...
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Should Widgets Follow the Vertical Rhythm?
When designing for a vertical rhythm on the web, should form elements also follow along with the rhythm?
I am currently working on developing a new set of guidelines and patterns for an enterprise ...
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How to specify that .PDF form fields use specific fonts?
Is there a way to embed a font in an interactive .pdf so that only it can be used to type in fields?
I am fairly certain that InDesign doesn't have this capability, but do you know if this is at all ...
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Indesign CS6: Applying "show/hide" function to elements on separate pages from trigger
Is it possible to apply a "show/hide" function to an element on one page that effects elements on other pages throughout a document?
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Indesign CS6 Is it possible to make one really long page and use breaks to make it work as if it's multiple pages?
I'm having trouble using the show/hide feature in Indesign to effect elements across multiple pages (see my question on the issue here). If I can't figure out how to make that work my next best ...
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InDesign CS6 Forms Radio Buttons Not Behaving as Expected
I am using InDesign CS6 (Mac) to create a one-page data entry form, and it contains three sets of radio buttons where only one choice is allowed for each set. Each of the buttons is supposed to have a ...
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Is there a way to do calculations when entering values in a field while using free transform in Photoshop?
When I enter values in free transform mode, there is a bunch of forms that indicate position of the object (x, y, etc...) I found that I can't add, subtract or multiply values in this form. It's very ...
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Is it possible to allow a user to attach a file in a .pdf form?
I created an interactive .pdf in Indesign, but I want to ad an option to let the user attach a file that he or she has on his computer. Is that possible?
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Adobe Acrobat Pro X can't use font for text field, which Indesign 6 can
I've exported an InDesign 6 (on Mac OSX) file to PDF (not for print, but for interactive), the PDF file has embedded several subfonts of Helvetice Neue already used in the InDesign 6 (on Mac OSX) ...
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Intervals: compact/responsive design ?
We have to display intervalls to the user to choose from:
less than 1250, 1250 to 5000, 5000 to 10000, 10000 to 50000, 50000 to 100000 and over 100000
I thaught of something like this
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What is the average pixel size for human writing?
While creating a form in .pdf format it occurred to me that I did not know or see where to get stats on what the average human pt or px size is for writing. Typically I would just design what ...
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Margins between varied size elements (heading, input, and button)
I have to design a page with two button choices separated by horizontal rule. The first group has a heading, text input and a button all on new lines.
The group after the horizontal rule has a ...
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How can I display sound distortion through images?
I've become very fascinated with the idea of digital destruction through a physical medium. There was PBS video on youtube How Does Glitchy Art Show Us Broken Is Beautiful?
Example Pieces:
Cultural ...
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Proper set up for using Indesign, exporting to PDF, and then data merging PDF
I've been doing some preliminary research regarding data merging.
I have a client requesting layouts of essentially sales package components.
His current workflow is to use Word to data merge with ...
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Expandable text field in acrobat
I would like to create a pdf with text fields that expand in height but when you are finish typing that they revert back to there original size so as not to cover anything up or flow the rest of my ...
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How to design forms that encourage clear printing of numbers?
On most of my documents, I have places where people can write their name and number. I found, many people do not print clearly, so I cannot read the numbers. For e.g., many write their 5's like 3's.
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InDesign: How to create lines for form design?
Every once in awhile I make forms (applications and whatnot) in InDesign, and, as it often is with ID, there is more than one way to get it done.
I have a few techniques that I use, but I often float ...
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Is there a good resource for beautiful HTML forms? [closed]
I am looking for some resources to design visually pleasing HTML forms. I can write the CSS, so even examples would be great.
Any recommendations?
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Designing forms for printing in InDesign
I have to make a lot of forms in InDesign. Not interactive forms, just forms that need to be printed. It's really a pain making all the checkboxes, radio buttons, lines and text fields and ensuring ...
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Making a form in InDesign with boxes to enter your responses
I need to make a form in InDesign for an application. The entries need to made so that each letter/number goes into an individual box. Here's an example I just found on the web:
http://...
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Dealing with narrow form fields
When I put a form into a main content area, I often find it looks awkward. In a typical content area of between 600-700px (like on this site), how wide should your form fields be? Contact forms or ...
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