Producing fillable forms

PDF files can be interactive. Users can fill forms before printing the entire document. With LaTeX, you can produce such forms. In this recipe, we will create a form.

How to do it...

Once again, we will use the hyperref package. Our goal is to produce small paper sheets for a survey as a fillable PDF form. A yellow background will distinguish it from other papers. The format will be landscape. Let's begin the process:

1. Start a new document with A6 paper in landscape format and with a small interparagraph space instead of paragraph indentation. Let's take a look at the following command:

   \documentclass[a6paper,landscape,parskip=half]{scrartcl}

2. Set a small margin to save space on screen:

   \usepackage[margin=0.4cm]{geometry}

3. Set the background color to 30 percent yellow:

   \usepackage{xcolor}
   \pagecolor{yellow!30}

4. Choose an empty page style, so you won't get page numbers:

   \pagestyle{empty}

5. Load the hyperref package:

   \usepackage{hyperref}

6. Start the document and start a Form environment...