Preview (Form Properties dialog box)

Use this dialog box to specify different options for previewing the form design.

To display this dialog box, select File > Form Properties and click Preview.

Preview Type

Specifies the type of form that you want to preview when using the Preview PDF tab:

Interactive Form: Select this option to view a form that contains fields for interactive data capture. When you preview the form design, the resulting form opens as an interactive PDF.
Print Form (One-sided): Select this option to preview forms that will be printed on one side of the paper. When you preview the form design, all objects are non-interactive.
Print Form (Two-sided): Select this option to preview forms that will be printed on both sides of the paper. When you preview the form design, all objects are non-interactive.

Generate Preview Data

Select this option to generate sample form data. When you preview the form design, it will be merged with the sample data. You can also indicate how many times to repeat a repeating subform in the previewed form design.

Data File

Specifies the data file to use when previewing how a form design will be merged with data. The data file must be in standard XML format. You can type the path to the data file in the Data File box or browse to the file.

Preview Adobe XML Form As

Specifies the preview format for forms saved as Adobe XML Form File (XDP). You can select one of the following options:

Static PDF Form: Sets the default preview format to Static PDF. The form design can contain only static elements. If your form design contains dynamic elements, they will be unavailable in the form. For example, if you have a form that contains a table in which the number of columns are fixed but the number of rows in the table will change depending on how much information is in the data source, only one row of data is shown in the Preview PDF tab if the minimum number of occurrences is set to 1.
Dynamic XML Form: Sets the default preview format to Dynamic PDF. The form design can contain dynamic elements. For example, if you have a form that contains a table in which the number of columns are fixed but the number of rows in the table will change depending on how much information is in the data source, all the rows of data are shown in the Preview PDF tab. You can also test adding a row to the table, which you could not do in a static PDF form.