How To Create Online PDF Fillable Form (A Step-by-Step Guide)

PlatoForms
2 min readOct 27, 2021

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Using Online PDF forms have become more and more common than before. Most businesses and establishments are into using it to assist their clients, customers, and even to get some survey data from their target respondents. For businesses, using PDF forms doesn’t just begin and end in sharing and downloading it.

To cater their customers needs, they have to produce fillable forms in PDF formats! And that could be challenging for some, especially for those who are noob when it comes to modern technology.

We know the pain. Learning and understanding how to create a fillable PDF form online can be time-consuming and often times confusing.

Given that there are different types of PDFs, not all of them are user-friendly as they seem to be. There are PDFs that cannot scan images, cannot be edited, and more.

And with that being said, PlatoForms provides you an easy-to-use and navigate Online Fillable PDF Form creator tool that will take care of all the hard work for you. PlatoForms is an all-around PDF form creator that supports various PDF formats such as searchable PDFs, scanned PDFs, and documents with images that are convertible to simple web forms.

A Detailed Guide on How To Create a PDF Form Online

All you need is just a few clicks and you will be able to convert your a simple PDF form to a fillable web form:

  1. Log in to your PlatoForms account and if you don’t have an account yet, click Sign Up.
  2. Once you are logged in, click start to build and choose to create an online PDF form for an existing PDF.
  3. Then upload your existing PDF file that you prefer to convert and choose the option of building an online PDF form.
  4. Click Add at the top of the page to add text to the PDF form. Once done, a yellow box will be displayed with texts which you can drag to the place where you need to put the text. If you wish to add other elements, just click “Add” and the options and features will be shown on the left side of the screen.
  5. If you wish to add a dropdown menu to your form, just click the “Add” dropdown button at the top of the page and the features will be shown.
  6. You can also preview the form that you created by clicking “Preview Form“ located at the top left part of the screen.
  7. Once done, click Publish and your form is ready to go.

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