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I will explain to you how I set it up. If you think there is a better way for me to start off doing this in the first place that might allow me to bypass this problem, by all means please correct me!
The way I did this is I pushed "create a new form," imported the old .doc file, auto detected form fields, and then I edited the auto-detected form fields into exactly what I wanted. It seems to just be an image of the form upon which I lay various form fields. The lines are pretty much nothing to Adobe, other than the fact that it "gets" that it is probably a good place for a text box (and it is corerct)
This might sound silly, but I do not know what you mean in regard to "creating the form such that each structure in word creates a new Designer object." The form I am working on right now as a trial is relatively new, but my company has a number of forms that are ancient- some made in the 90s- and many were created by people who did not know much at all about computers. (I am talking using spaces to move parts instead of tabs, etc.) I just want to feed these poorly constructed forms into adobe and give them easy-to-use fill-in boxes, check boxes, drop-down boxes, date boxes, etc- but still have the form look exactly like it does now (even though many are admittedly pretty bad looking lol.) I have had success doing all of that, apart from FIB lines like this:
Additional Details: ______________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
My employers want one single, simple version of a form sitting up on the server. They want it so that people cannot edit things they way they presently can with all these .doc forms. They want a form that can be (A) filled in electronically and printed (B) printed blank and then entirely filled in with a pen later on or (C) a combination of the two ((C) is going to be most common, since we have departments who get the printed version with some of it electronically filled in and then they fill in the rest with a pen.) I cannot have different versions depending on what people are going to do, because nobody will understand that. Let's just say I do not work in a tech-savvy environment. Let's put it this way I am the one trying to move their forms out of 1992 technology and I am here looking for help lol.
It is too bad that adjusting the line spacing is so painful or difficult to accomplish. I really would have thought that would be my best bet to fill in an area like the one above.
I find the idea of a conditional white box somewhat interesting. I guess that might work IF the box only shows up in the background if a person enters text into that particular text field. However, there might be some real concerns that the "look" of the form has changed- and they might not accept what I do because of that. I have been specifically told that the "look" of the form cannot change in any way. My goal is to modernize what is already outdated- if I get them comfortable doing things electronically, then hopefully as forms are reconcepted in the future, we can move into making modern forms that do not have to adhere to these old-fashioned conventions.
-Chris
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