Checklists with AutoForm Radio Buttons

[David Artman]

Hi, again, all--still working a checklist template concept. ALMOST got
it all working in Frame+Acrobat... I'll be brief:

Unstructured FM8, Acrobat 9 Pro ONLY on Win7 64bit

I want radio buttons to appear to the right of a line with a specific
paragraph tag that already has autonumbering:
1) Manually set anchor frame on the in-flow line, outside of column,
which contains a text frame.
2) Text frame contains a "ChecklistLabel" para tag, on which "Yes" and
"No" are followed by Wingding circles (the latter set within "Checklist"
character tags).
3) Print to PS, distill, open in Acrobat9
4) Let Form Wizard detect fields automatically.

OK, so the PDF MOSTLY ends up with "Yes" and "No" fields followed by
circle Wingdings. However:
X) If more than one appear on the same page, they lose their 'pairing'
side-to-side and INSTEAD they pair vertically. So instead of the Yes/No
pair on the top line being together, with the Yes/No on the paragraph
below it also paired, it instead has the Yes/Yes as a pair of vertically
associated radio buttons and the No/No as another vertical pair.

I have tried every sort of alignment trick I could think of, in FM:
N) Making sure the Yes and No are much closer together than the rows of
Yes/No pairs - failed.
N) In fact, the above fails EVEN IF the Yeses are not in vertical
alignment; so long as the Noes are, they get paired and then,
automagically, the Yeses 'leftward' get paired!?
Y) The only thing that got them to break the vertical association and
pair horizontally is if BOTH the Yeses AND the Noes are out of vertical
alignment. Obviously, this isn't a viable solution: having the visual
alignment of these radio buttons drift left and right like a lazy river.

This leads me to believe (hope!) that some setting in Acrobat will make
the Forms Wizard scan left-to-right and proceed downward (like, you
know, how English is read?!?) instead of scan top-to-bottom and proceed
left-to-right.

OR, it might be that they are out of frame, and if they were inline and
floated right, they'd better-associate? (Trying that now--just thought
of it!)

Thanks for any ideas/tricks!
David

PS: I have NO budget for pluins at this site; so please save both our
times and consider only those solutions that are possible within FM and
Acro.