Placing fields on the page

A write zone is the box where a value prints. Draw it once, and every run prints the value in that spot, at the size and style you set.

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A field can keep a value without printing it. To print it, give it a write zone: a box on the page. One value can print in several places.

Fig. 01A write zone pins a value to one spot. Every run prints it there.

Select a zone and its field opens beside it, on the row that prints it.

The template editor showing a payment approval form. Each blank line has a box with the name of the value that prints there. The Approved by zone is selected, and its field is open on the right on the row that prints it.
Fig. 02Each box is a write zone. The selected one opens its field on the row that prints it.

Add a field to the page

  • Add field in the toolbar: pick a type; the arrow at the end holds Address, Batch and Options. The field lands mid-page.
  • Double-click an empty spot (press and hold on a tablet), then Add field. The field lands there.
  • On a phone: Add field in the fields sheet.
Fig. 03Three ways in, one kind of field.

A Word document has no boxes: click a paragraph and the field prints at its end.

Move and size a zone

Drag a zone, or its edges and corners. Arrow keys nudge it, Shift further. Drag across empty space to select several.

  • Delete removes the zone, not the field; a field goes through its ⋯ menu, Delete field.
  • Add write zone under Outputs prints the value in one more place.
  • Each zone has its own Appearance.
Example · Appearance
FontHelvetica, Times, Courier
SizeFont size and line height
StyleBold, italic, underline
ColorA swatch or a hex code
AlignLeft, center, right

Tidy with Clean up

Clean up in the toolbar snaps every write zone onto the form's own lines and boxes and lowers a text size that will not fit. No AI; up to 60 pages. Undo clean up puts everything back.

Fig. 04Clean up measures the form's printed lines and moves each zone onto one.

A form's own fillable boxes stay where the form put them; Build from a completed example switches them on. Nothing is saved until Save, at the top of the app, which shows only with unsaved changes.

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