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<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">On 13 Sep 2012 at 11:23, David Artman wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> I am currently considering this method, using only FM 8 and Acrobat 9 Pro:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> 1) Manually place a checkbox glyph into a text frame within an anchor</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> frame that is set to "Run Into Paragraph" and aligned right.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> 2) Add some kind of label within the text frame (e.g., "Y", "OK" or</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> "Done").</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> 3) Copy-and-paste the anchor for that frame at then end of every a new</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> para of that type.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> 4) Distill to PDF.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> 5) Open PDF in AcroPro.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> 6) Let the Form Wizard detect the labelled checkboxes and auto-create</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> them.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" color="#007f00" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Works, but error-prone in many ways:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">David, You may have a look at Shlomo Perets' "</span></font><a href="http://microtype.com/timesavers_Assistants.html"><font face="Consolas" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><u>FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers</u></span></font></a><font
face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">" - the Form Assistant.
See also the rich set of </span></font><a href="http://microtype.com/showcase.html"><font face="Consolas" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><u>example PDF forms</u></span></font></a><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">, in particular </span></font><a href="http://microtype.com/showcase/FormAsst/checklistYN.pdf"><font
face="Consolas" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><u>Checklist</u></span></font></a><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">.</span></font></div>
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