Managing fields

Several context menu commands are available when adding fields to a page that help you construct, align, size, and control field properties in Nitro PDF Professional. You can select a single field, or multiple fields of different types, using any of the form tools, and open a context menu. When you select multiple fields, one field is highlighted in red and the other fields are highlighted in Blue. The red highlighted field is the target field and all other fields assume the same properties when applying settings to a group of fields (for example, resizing the field sizes of all selected fields to the size of the target field). From the menu options, you can make choices for assisting you in adding fields on a PDF form.

To use the context menu options:

1. Select a group of fields by first clicking one field, and then press Shift or Control and click additional fields.
2. Right-click to open a context menu and do any of the following:
• Properties. Select Properties to open the From Properties. When multiple fields are selected you can edit common attributes such as General settings, Appearance settings, and Action settings.
• Edit. Select Edit to open a sub menu where you can:
• Cut. Cuts the field.
• Copy. Copies the field and makes it available for pasting.
• Paste. After one or more fields have been cut or copied you can paste the fields to create duplicates.
• Delete. Deletes the selected fields.
• Set Properties As Default. This option is only available when a single field is selected. All the attributes assigned in the General, Appearance, Options, Format, Validate, Calculate and other settings are captured and used as a new default when creating additional fields of the same type.
• Set Action.Opens the Set Action settings in the Form Properties.
• Align. When multiple fields are selected, alignment is made to the target field highlighted in red. From a submenu you have choices for:
• Left. Aligns the field boxes left.
• Right. Aligns field boxes right.
• Top. Aligns field boxes at the top.
• Bottom. Aligns field boxes at the bottom.
• Vertically. Aligns field boxes to vertical centers.
• Horizontally.Aligns field boxes to horizontal centers.
• Distribute. If you have a row or column of fields you can select all fields in the row or column and distribute them so they appear equidistant from each other. You can distribute fields:
• Vertically. Use this option when distributing fields in column.
• Horizontally. Use this option when distributing files in a row.
• Size. Fields are sized to the same size as the target field highlighted in red. You can size fields according to:
• Width. Sizes to the same width as the target field.
• Height. Sizes to the same height as the target field.
• Both. Sizes both width and height same as the target field.