Editing Forms

1. Open the desired PDF form.

2. Go to Form > Editor. The Edit Form mode is engaged.

   • Alternatively, press CTRL+SHIFT+F to engage Edit Form mode.
3. To alter an existing field, click it to make it active. Control points will appear for the field that can be used to move or resize it.
   • Fields can also be located on the Forms tab, which opens automatically when the Edit Form mode is engaged. Click a field name on the Forms tab to select it on the PDF.
   • Click and drag any of the control points to resize the field.
   • Click inside the field and drag it to a new location to move it. To easily move form fields in relation to other form fields, use the Alignment Toolbar.
4. To rename a form field, select it on the Forms tab and press F2.
5. To add a form field to the PDF, click Insert and select the desired form field from the menu, then place the field on the PDF. See Form Fields for more information about the available fields.

The Alignment toolbar can be used to manipulate the size, distribution, and alignment of form fields. The buttons on the toolbar become active as they become applicable to the selected form fields; when no form fields are selected, they are all inactive (grayed out). If an alignment tool is not active, that means it cannot be used on the selected form fields. As most of the alignment tools resize, distribute, or align selected form fields in relation to one another, at least two form fields must be selected before they will become active.

The Alignment tools cannot be used on form fields and markups at the same time.

If the toolbar is currently hidden, go to View > Toolbars and select it to show it.

To use the Alignment toolbar:

1. Go to Form > Editor. The Edit Form mode is engaged.

   • Alternatively, press CTRL+SHIFT+F to engage Edit Form mode.
   • When in Edit Form mode, the Alignment tools are automatically configured to work on form fields and will not affect markups.

2. Select the form fields to be resized, distributed, or aligned. As most of the alignment tools resize, distribute, or align selected form fields in relation to one another, at least two form fields must be selected before they will become active. There are several ways to select multiple form fields:

   • Hold down either CTRL (to multi-select) or SHIFT (to select a range) while clicking field names in the Forms tab.
   • Hold down SHIFT while clicking the desired form fields in the workspace.
   • Click and drag over an area in the workspace. Any form field that is entirely within the area described will be selected.

3. If necessary, use one of the following methods to deselect a form field from the selected group:

   • Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking the form field in the workspace.
   • Hold down the CTRL key while clicking the field name in the Forms tab.

4. Once the desired fields have been selected, the applicable alignment tools become active on the Alignment toolbar.

   

   Click the desired alignment tool.

   • Align Left (CTRL+ALT+L): Aligns selected form fields to the left edge of the first field that was selected.

   • Align Top (CTRL+ALT+T): Aligns selected form fields to the top edge of the first field that was selected.

   • Align Right (CTRL+ALT+R): Aligns selected form fields to the right edge of the first field that was selected.

   • Align Bottom (CTRL+ALT+B): Aligns selected form fields to the bottom edge of the first field that was selected.

   • Align Center: (CTRL+ALT+E): Aligns the vertical centers of the selected form fields to the vertical center of the first markup selected.
   • Align Middle (CTRL+ALT+M): Aligns the horizontal middles of the selected form fields to the horizontal middle of the first markup selected.
   • Center in Document: Aligns the centers of the selected form fields to the center of the page.

   • Align Width: Aligns selected form fields to be the same width as the first field that was selected.

   • Align Height:: Aligns selected form fields to be the same height as the first field that was selected.

     Distribute Horizontally: Distributes three or more markups along their horizontal plane.

     Distribute Vertically: Distributes three or more markups along their vertical plane.

   • Align Size: Aligns selected form fields to be both the same height and width as the first field that was selected.

   • Distribute Horizontally: Evenly distributes selected form fields horizontally between the leftmost and rightmost of the selected fields.

   • Distribute Vertically: Evenly distributes selected form fields vertically between the leftmost and rightmost of the selected fields.