- 1). Open any text editor and start a new form. Press space bar a few times and then save the document. This blank page will serve as your PDF template. You will have to load this document into Adobe to be able to write your PDF. Remember, a PDF is an image. You will be able to write on the image of this blank document and save it as a PDF once you load it into Adobe. If you already have a document to use as your PDF template, you can skip this step.
- 2). Open Adobe Acrobat.
- 3). Click on "Create PDF Form" under the "Getting Started" menu. If you don't have a "Getting Started" menu, you will see the "Create PDF Form" option under the "File" menu.
- 4). Select whether you would like to use the current document as a form template, browse for a document, or scan a piece of paper.
- 5). Click "Next." If you chose to use the current document, your PDF window will open. If you chose to browse or scan a document, you will have the chance to do so now. Now you can browse for the document you created in Step 1 and load it into Adobe. Remember that a PDF is an image, so you will need a document template to work on, you can't just create a PDF from scratch in Adobe. You can write on the image of a document. Once you select your document, the PDF window will appear.
- 6). Click on the "Add New Field" option on the task bar on the right of the screen and scroll down to "Text Field."
- 7). Click on "Text Field" and move your mouse cursor onto the document. You will see a blue text field box moving along with your cursor. Click where you would like to drop the text field.
- 8). Click on a corner or side of the text field box and then drag your cursor to change the size of the box.
- 9). Type whatever you would like to write inside the text field. Once the text field is filled up, you can enlarge it or add a new one.
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Go to "File" and save your document as a PDF when you're done.
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