There you are! Now you have your PDF Form. You can click on the “Export directly as PDF” button directly from OpenOffice’s standard bar or either go on File->Export as PDF and select some more advanced options. Once you have created your form it’s time to create the PDF file. Really intresting are the “Control…” and “Data…” entries which allow you to set advanced properties of your newly creted object. With a right click on the object you can modify its properties. You can treat this elements exactly as any other element like an image, a paragraph or whatever. Inserting form controls in your page should not be a problem. In this toolbar you will also find another useful button, More Controls which allows you to insert even more controls. This will show you a toolbar with plenty of useful form stuff such as Labels, Text Boxes, Check Boxes, etc… To insert Form controls and fields go on View -> Toolbars -> Form Controls. But your question surely is: How do I insert form controls/fields? You can now handle this page as you usually do as any other written document. So even if you are new to OpenOffice and used to work with MS Office you should not find any big difficulty in working on this easy stuff. There is not a big difference between OpenOffice and Microsoft Office for what concerns the GUI (Graphical User Interface). You can easily get the OpenOffice suite here: As far as I know Microsoft Office doesn’t support PDF export (but I heard this feauter will be implemented in the next version of Office). To create a PDF Form you will need OpenOffice. They are easily online-fillable and this is nowadays really important. That’s because in a PDF files fields remain exaclty where you put them and you can set plenty of intresting parameters. I hadn’t seen such files before! So I asked me: How do I create one of them? So after some tries… here you are! My experience.īut why should you need to create such a form? Well, PDF forms are really much better than *.doc or *.odt forms. Among all the forms I had to fill in, I recieved a PDF file from Finland which actually was a form. Under these month I’ve been managing a lot of burocracy due to my Erasmus period which will start in August in Tampere, Finland.
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