If you want to create a form to be filled out on paper, you can of course simulate the form fields with pictures and shapes.
If you want to create a form to be filled in using software, with fields, checkboxes, radiobuttons and such things, Pages is not the tool for you. To create forms, you can try Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice or NeoOffice for example. (It is not simple in any of them, and some of them may crash frequently, so prepare yourself with some patience.)
The image above is from Numbers. Numbers has the ability to set values with check boxes, but when you copy those cells to Pages, they strangely enough lose the feature.
The image above is from NeoOffice. Pages does not support any form functionality.
9 comments:
Why not just use Numbers?
It has a lot of layout features similar to Pages and forms rarely are longer than a few pages.
Do Numbers' forms retain all the fields when exported as .pdfs?
None of the fields are active after you export to pdf from any iWork application.
You can design forms to print out, but you cannot design forms for users to fill in online.
Sadly it is these shortcomings that leads many people to just give up.
Apple doesn't even document them so you are left to stumble across them yourself, after wasting a lot of time.
I gave up on Pages for a recent report for a client after encountering one too many gotchas. Next time I don't think I will bother even trying in the first place.
Shame there's no Forms support but Pages is still better than any alternative.
Hear, hear!
Craig and Soren. That is so ignorant. If you need to create forms in a word processor and that word processor doesn't have a capability that ALL the others do, how is it better?
Brainwashed APPLE IS BEST dweebs.
I wonder who the REAL dweeb is... Hmmm...
Apple should just get with the program and work on enhances the features of their software and not just assume they are the best and they have nothing to improve. It's a cocky attitude.
I think they've also pretty much acknowledge that MS Office Suite rules as it's shown in their products videos lately. I guess they gave up.
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