You could also add the "tool tips" to each form field. This will cause a pop-up to appear after a cursor has set on a field for a short time.
Hi--I have this same question and see that it was never answered acurately. George Kaiser states above that you can do this with advanced coding, can someone share the details of how? I have been playng around with it for a couple of hours to no avail. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog.
Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Visit chat. Linked 3. Related Improve this question. Billy Coover Billy Coover 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Copy the following script into a text file and save it with a '.
Place a copy of your PDF file into the same folder as the script, naming it 'myForm. Double-click the script file to run. Doc" theDoc. Read "myForm. AddFont "Helvetica-Bold" theDoc. GetInfo theDoc. GetInfo id, "Page" theDoc. GetInfo id, "Rect" theDoc. FillRect theDoc. AddText theDoc. GetInfo id, "Name" theDoc.
Delete id Next theDoc. Save "output. Sets how negative numbers are displayed. List includes one-, two-, and four-digit variations where d stands for the day, m stands for month, and y stands for year.
List includes display variations where h stands for the hour on a hour clock, H stands for the hour on a hour clock, MM stands for minutes, ss stands for the seconds, and tt stands for AM or PM. Phone Number. Social Security Number. For a nine-digit U. Hyphens are inserted automatically after the third and fifth digits. Arbitrary Mask. Changes the format category to Custom and makes another text field available, in which you can type a custom format. Use this option to specify which types of characters the user can enter in any given position, and how the data displays in the field.
Accepts spaces and most printable characters, including all characters available on a standard keyboard and ANSI characters in the ranges of 32— and — Makes additional options available to form designers who want to write their own JavaScripts for formatting and keystrokes. For example, a custom script could define a new currency format or limit the user entry to specific keystroke characters. Custom Format Script. Displays any custom scripts you have added for formats.
The Edit button opens a dialog box in which you can write and add new scripts. Custom Keystroke Script. Displays any custom scripts you have added to validate keystrokes. Validation properties restrict entries to specified ranges, values, or characters, ensuring that users enter the appropriate data for a specified form field. Field Value Is Not Validated. Field Value Is In Range. Sets a numeric range for form fields using values you enter in either as a number or a percentage.
Run Custom Validation Script. Encode Using. Encodes the data into the barcode in standard XFDF format. JavaScript script is automatically generated. Tab Delimited. Encodes the fields into the barcode as tab-delimited values.
If the form is configured to output the data in individual XFDF or XDP files, the data must be in a tab-delimited format with the field names in the first line. This option is also useful if you want to fit more data into a barcode or if you intend to copy the data into database or spreadsheet tables. Opens a dialog box in which you select which user data fields will be encoded in the barcode for you to retrieve. Include Field Names.
Available only when Tab Delimited encoding is selected. Encodes field names as the first line of the barcode contents. The values are encoded under them. Displays the default script. Click the Edit button to open the JavaScript Editor dialog box, in which you can write custom calculation scripts for your barcode.
Reference To published Form. Shows the path to the PDF form. You can edit this by typing in the URL to the published form. Later, you can re-create a digital version of the completed form by merging the form template with an instance of user-supplied data. You can also maintain the relationship between a specific form template and its related barcode data files. When you encode a barcode using XML values, the URL reference is encoded into the barcode and is displayed on the form, below the barcode.
You can save, reuse, and share a set of custom settings for barcode parameters, to apply them when you create new barcode form fields. You can make further adjustments to your custom parameter sets after you define them.
All of these processes begin by opening the barcode form field properties dialog box. To open the properties dialog box, double-click the barcode field. Select the existing parameter set that you want to use as the basis of the new set, and click New. Type a name in the Name box and a description in the Description box. The newly defined parameter set appears in the list in the Manage Barcode Parameters dialog box, and all the buttons on the right side of the dialog box become available.
The new definition also appears in the Decode Condition menu in the Options tab of the Barcode Field Properties dialog box. Click Edit and make the changes to the settings; then click OK.
Click Delete. Confirm the deletion in the message that appears by clicking OK. Select a barcode parameter set from the list and click Export. Select a location and file name for the file that has the file name extension. After you change properties for a specific type of form field, you can set those properties as the default set for that type.
For example, you can create a checkbox, change its properties, and then save the properties as the default values. The default values can be only for Appearance and Size related attributes of the field. Properties for format related attributes like Date cannot be set as default. Right-click the form field for which you have already changed properties, and choose Use Current Properties As New Defaults.
Changing the default properties does not change the settings for existing form fields of that type. The new defaults apply only to new fields that you create. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. User Guide Cancel. About form field properties. These are: Locked When selected, prevents any further changes to any form field properties. Close Closes the form field Properties dialog box.
Modify form field properties. Open the Properties dialog box using one of the following methods:. Change the properties on each of the available tabs, as needed. The property is changed as soon as you select another property or press Enter. Click Close.
General tab for form field properties. The General tab appears for all types of form fields and includes the following options:. Specifies the unique name of the selected form field. Form Field. Rotates the form field by 0, 90, , or Degrees. Read Only. Prevents the user from changing the form field content. Appearance tab for form field properties.
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