2. Planning your forms
This chapter describes the parameters you must determine and
specify when designing your form.
Careful planning and design are critical to creating electronic
versions of your forms. Form planning and design specify such
things as page size, orientation, layout, fonts, inks, and highlight
colors.
For additional information about designing complex forms and
Xerox laser printer capabilities, refer to the “System
considerations” appendix.
Determining format
Before you create a form with HFDL command statements, you
must plan its layout, content, and appearance according to the
requirements described in the following sections.
Page orientation
The orientation of a page is either portrait or landscape. Figure
2–1 shows these orientations.
Figure 2–1. Page orientation
PORTRAIT
LANDSCAPE
The landscape orientation, sometimes called the horizontal
format, refers to a page whose horizontal side is longer than its
vertical side.
The portrait orientation, sometimes called a vertical format, refers
to a page whose vertical side is longer than its horizontal side.
Use the portrait orientation for text material such as letters,
manuals, reports, and forms that need the tall vertical format.
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