Video guide about create PDF from BBB
Hey everyone, Kevin here. Today I want to show you how you can create a fillable PDF form entirely for free. If you've ever wanted to create a PDF form before, you probably found that you have to get Adobe Acrobat and it works pretty well, but it does also carry a hefty price tag of $15 per month. Today I'm going to show you some free software that will allow you to create fillable forms. All right, well, let's jump on the computer and let's get started. To create a PDF form, we're going to use an application called LibreOffice. You can get this at the website libraryoffice.org. I've also included a link in the description of this video. You can just click on that and that’ll bring you to this website. LibreOffice is kind of like Microsoft Office. It has a similar set of applications. The main difference is LibreOffice is entirely free, and it's also open source. Once you land on the home page, you'll see a pretty prominent download now button. Let's click on this. On the next page, you'll see the version of LibreOffice that you can . I chose to go with the most recent version. Over here on the right-hand side, you can choose your operating system. It works across all different major platforms. Choose your operating system and then click on download and run through the installation process. Once you finish downloading and installing LibreOffice, go down to your taskbar and type in LibreOffice Writer. We're going to use the Writer program to pull together our form and then to save it as a PDF form. This drops me into LibreOffice Writer, and if you've ever used an authoring app before, chances are this will look very familiar. Here you have things like being able to choose the fonts, the size, you could set alignment, and then here down below, we have our canvas where we can start building our form. Now you probably noticed that I already started creating just the basics of what I want to turn into a form. So, with the Kevin Cookie Company, I put our logo up on top, I typed in a header, and then I also inserted a table with some different questions. Now right now it's not a form yet. This is just the basic structure and I want to turn this into a form. To create this area here, I simply used tables. You could insert a table. You could define the number of columns and rows and you can very easily format something that looks like this. If you really just want to follow along and do exactly what I'm doing, I've included a link to this file in the description, so you can click on that and then you can follow what I'm doing. Within LibreOffice Writer, they have a whole bunch of very rich form tools and controls. If we look up on top at all of these different menus, there's one called form. That seems pretty promising, let's ckick on that. Within the form menu, we have all of these different tools, and right here, you can insert things like text boxes, checkboxes,...