FormsCentral now provides you the option to import and existing PDF form into the service. Here are some important things to know:
- FormsCentral does not support the importing of PDF forms created using the LiveCycle Designer (XFA based PDF forms). You can identify such a form by opening it in Reader/Acrobat, going to the File menu -> Properties and looking at the PDF Producer name on the Description tab. It will say LiveCycle Designer.
- The PDF form you import must have existing fillable form fields placed on it using a tool like Adobe Acrobat or the latest version of Adobe InDesign (or any other competitive form authoring tool).
- If your PDF form is encrypted with a password you must remove the password from the file before importing.
- Once you import the PDF form you cannot edit it except for placing the Submit button on the first or last page of the form.
- You can only distribute the form as a PDF file. We do not provide a Web Form option for imported PDF forms.
Additionally in some cases we can successfully import the PDF form but there are certain features within the PDF form that we will not support:
- Rich text fields - If rich text is typed into a form field by a respondent it will be sent as plain text to FormsCentral (the service doesn't support rich text in text fields)
- Export values - Export values are stripped from the PDF form; You will always see the Display Value in the response table, submission receipts and email notifications.If there are JavaScripts in the PDF form that use the export values they will likely break
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