We need some text frames to make a nice title and field descriptions - a few clicks on the text frame icon (that one right to the arrow) and all the text frames are there in no time. Let us turn on the grid first (menu View>Show Grid), it will help us to correctly locate our form fields on the page. We start with clicking on the "New Document" icon or choosing New from the File menu. Its rather simple to create a new form with Scribus. Nevertheless, Scribus already is a useful PDF forms tool for many people, and it is becoming better at an incredible pace. For example, there is an issue with the behaviour of radio buttons(see this list of bugs and feature requests related to PDF forms). There are still some issues around creating PDF forms in Scribus that need to be addressed to make Scribus a fully featured PDF forms tool.
However, this online submission works only when using the Acrobat Reader plugin, not when using the standalone Acrobat Reader application.
Information in a PDF form may also be submitted online to a remote location for further processing. Usually, PDF forms are filled out by users on their computers and then printed out locally. One of the biggest advantages of Scribus is its ability to create PDF forms with embedded JavaScript scripts.
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