Hi, all,
An "editable field" is a form field in an Acrobat 'form' (a document
created using either Designer in Acrobat 7 or the forms creation tool in
earlier versions of Acrobat). They are specifically created for user
action--more specifically, action by users who do NOT have the full
Acrobat suite.
As you indicate, they can be numeric, text, check-boxes, buttons, etc.,
but NOT the text of the document.  At one point there were some PDFs of
various NIH forms that were "real PDF forms" (if that makes sense).
 cheers, Elsa

>>> xxxxxx@AECOM.YU.EDU 04/07/06 1:09 PM >>>
[struggling to understand what I am talking about]

I think I now understand that an "editable field" in a pdf document is
a place where anyone using only a PDF reader can change text, click
buttons, etc.  But since we have not come across any such fields in pdfs
prepared for NIH eRA, I am wondering what types of documents were
presenting with these fields...was it biosketches?

Is "editable fields" standard lingo?   Given that I can go into most
PDFs with full Adobe and "edit", wouldn't a better term, despite the
Englische, be "fill-in-able" or "click-able"?   Or does the word "field"
denote a place set aside for user action?

thanks

Charlie

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